Presidency Challenges Quotes

No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.

The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day.

To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client; still, one must make the best of the case, for the purposes of Providence.

I cannot imagine a worse job than being president of these Untied States in these most trying of times. President Barack Obama has been under siege from every side for the entirety of his time in office.

Of course I don't know what's going on in that meeting on in the mind of Donald Trump. But I do know one of the things President Barack Obama was struck by was how much time he spent on cyber-security as president. And one of the things he said was that, in the years ahead, the next president will be spending even more time. And cyber-security isn't a thing that goes away after this election. It's a constant flow.

There are just some things about being president that are difficult.

This is a tough business to run for president.

I'll be damned if I am not getting tired of this. It seems to be the profession of a President simply to hear other people talk.

Every president, if you watch what they look like when they come into office, you can see their hair turn white because it's such a hard job.

With me it is exceptionally true that the Presidency is no bed of roses.

One of the worries about a presidency is that everybody tells you yes. Nobody helps you figure out where your blind spots are.

In its early days, Trump's presidency ought to be viewed as the arduous start to the complicated task of draining the Washington swamp.

One of the penalties of being president of the United States is that you must subsist for four years without drinking anything except Californian wine.

It is easy to be President if there are no problems and the money comes pouring in.

I learned running the government for the Presidency, which I always thought was difficult, is even more difficult than I thought.

Obama invented himself against all odds and repeated parental abandonment, and he worked hard to regiment his emotions. But now that can come across as imperviousness and inflexibility. He wants to run the agenda; he doesn't want the agenda to run him. Once you become president, though, there's no way to predict what your crises will be.

Who could have predicted this, that the presidency is kind of a hard job? Nobody knew that. I also like the fact that Trump is a detail-oriented person. I find his interviews amazing. He's actually kind of remarkably candid.

The office of the President is so staggeringly complicated that nobody can ... be a good President.