Franklin Foer Quotes

He's a jackass at a time when we need to have a serious debate.... Every time I turn around somebody asks we what I think about Donald Trump and the latest person he has trashed.

I don’t think that you have to run down someone’s reputation in order to run for the Presidency.

The tone of a portion of the press of the country toward public men, and especially toward political opponents, is degrading, all forms of coarse and noisy slander being apparently considered legitimate weapons to employ against men of the opposite party or faction.

Today, I'm a candidate for the office of president of the United States of America. My kids can't believe I just said that.

I have never been in doubt since I was old enough to think intelligently that I would someday be made president.

Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.

After thinking carefully about how I can best help my fellow Minnesotans, I have decided to not seek election for a different office in 2014. The warm encouragement from many people to run for U.S. senator or the governorship was deeply humbling.

I really found this campaign odious. I couldn't get up for it. The quality of the candidates and the campaign, I just found the whole thing second-rate. I didn't know how to explain to my granddaughter that I was spending my dotage writing about Al Gore and George W. Bush.

I'm making this decision based on whether I believe in my heart that I'm ready to be president of the United States and that I want to be president of the United States right now.

If it was something that I really committed myself to, I don't think there's anything that could stop me becoming President of the United States.

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.

One of the things about leadership is that you've got to show up. And if you want to be president of the United States you've got to make a case to the American people that Barack Obama needs to be dismissed from his position.

The interesting thing is that it seems like George W. Bush would have been happy being the president of anything. He could have been president of Major League Baseball.

I wanted to be president of the United States. I really did. The older I get, the less preposterous the idea seems.

Apparently Arnold was inspired by President Bush, who proved you can be a successful politician in this country even if English is your second language.

The great constraint on the Presidency is time.

Politicians who are not good counter-punchers usually become punching bags.

When we look at the history of the American Presidency, we are forced to conclude that Darwin had it backwards.

I voted for George W. Bush, but we’ve lost our way.

Our job is to bash the President.

I will not sit by and watch good people smeared.

We need more participation, so when I see someone like Trump, I go, 'You know something? Good for him'. I may not support him, but let him run.

If I ran as a Dem, I know I could beat Hillary Clinton. And if it was me vs. Trump, I would crush him. No doubt about it.

I would love to be the president of United States, and I think I would be good at it, but it's too late, and it is too hard.

The idea that I should become president seems to me too visionary to require a serious answer. It has never entered my head, nor is it likely to enter the head of any other person.