Bernard W. Nussbaum Quotes

The actions of our president systematically provide both the legal and political justifications for similar initiatives undertaken by later presidents.

The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands.

Presidential biography is, by its nature, out of scale; no character is bigger, no action greater, than the person and the doings of the American president.

The notion that it is desirable to have a President who can give his full attention to the "presidency" and not worry about reelection is quite a mistake.

Never underestimate the power of an American President in his early days.

President [William Howard] Taft is an amiable man, completely surrounded by men who know exactly what they want.

A President has a character, and the whole administration takes its character from the President's.

Presidents live and work in a house of history. They dwell with ghosts. Present power and the weight of the past are ambient realities of daily life in the presidency, and the two are intimately connected.

As Obama prepares to begin the last year of his presidency, he stands in an unusual position on the national stage: He is the rationalist, a creature of intellect rather than emotion.

Clinton is a big personality who has led a big life, and for some of the media conventional wisdom to boil it down to a view that 'all people are really interested in' are a few moments of madness in the Oval Office gets him, the importance of the presidency, and the significance of his life, all wrong.

Every president since George Washington has taken executive privilege seriously. Every Republican president has.

In my opinion eight years as president is enough and sometimes too much for any man to serve in that capacity.

We are all the President's men.

Well, Warren Harding, I have got you the presidency. What are you going to do with it?

A person's life is over in 50, 100 years. But a company lives on through the people it is composed of, and SoftBank group has to survive even after I'm gone.

If you want to age a lot of years, become president.

The office of President is a great one; to every true American it seems the greatest on earth. And to me, as I was engaged in weaving a background of music for the pageantry of it, there came a deeper realization of the effect of that office on the man.

As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing.

But I think it's important that things endure.

Don't get me wrong: I would love to be president.

We all obviously need others to look up to, and be inspirational to us. Ford did a great job as far as putting the presidency back where it belonged, getting the trust back after Nixon. And President Reagan has been one of the most influential presidents.

American presidential leadership never goes out of style.

Though it was never a goal in life, it has occurred to me that I've met six presidents of the United States. OK, I met four of them before they became president, including Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush, No. 43.

As to the presidency, the two happiest days of my life were those of my entrance upon the office and my surrender of it.

I feel as a brand I'm here to be around for a long time.