Steve Garvey Quotes

Nixon officials foreshadowed both the historic distinction and seamy underside of the presidency.

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

I think George W. Bush has a warm, engaging personality. But, you know, the presidency is more than just a popularity contest.

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

When he entered the Oval Office - by fate, not by design - Citizen Ford knew that he was not perfect, just as he knew he was not perfect when he left. But what president ever was?

The presidency awed me, but presidents do not. Perhaps I have always expected too much of them, but I believe that when they reach the highest office in the land, they should live up to the greatest honor that can come to a person in American political life. Some have stood the test better than others.

What's missing is leadership in the White House. And the story that Barack Obama does tell, forever shifting blame to the last administration, is getting old. The man assumed office almost four years ago - isn't it about time he assumed responsibility?

There are limits on what a president can achieve or do, but the expectations are so great.

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.

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.

The nature of the Presidency is such that you are always asking yourself what else could you be doing?.

Obama isn't just too big to fail. He's too big to know. Obama is so vital to the country and to the world, he must be kept out of the loop in order to save him from his failed presidency.

As soon as a regular guy like Bill Clinton becomes the president, he wears a mantle of greatness. He's the president.

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.

We are all the President's men.

No one reaches the Oval Office without a great deal of admiration for the institution - and himself - so it's unsurprising that sitting presidents favor the biographies of former presidents.

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.

I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You've got to just stand there and take it.

I kept a very full diary of my relationship with Nixon, for some strange reason, until he became president.

There's always a risk when the candidate becomes president: Will he deliver what is expected of him?

One right decision doth not a great president make.

President Ford used humor a great deal.

In the post-Watergate atmosphere of 1975 and 1976, the just-plain-folks personalities of both Ford and Carter seemed the perfect antidote to Nixon's arrogant, isolated presidency. But as alert history-minded readers know, Ford and Carter were both rebuffed by voters in their efforts to hold on to the presidency.

There is but one man to whom I am willing to entrust their future and that man's name is George Bush.