Presidential Responsibilities Quotes

I think Donald Trump should cool down a little bit. To pay more attention to the history. To really understand what U.S.'s value is about. I think, as a president, those things you always have to ask.

Once Donald Trump takes the oath of office as president of the United States, the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution makes it clear that he cannot accept those favors.

I do think the president's best role is usually as the sort of initiator.

I think the presidency is much too serious a thing to just play politics with.

When you're President you have to make a lot of tough decisions. You have to keep lining them up and making them.

I believe that the role of president of the United States is vastly different from the role of candidate and that the Donald Trump of the campaign will not succeed as president.

I'm George Bush. I'm the president.

The issues that cross a president's desk are never easy. The easy questions don't even get to the president.

The President is not a God, not a miracle worker. He is a citizen.

Trump hasn't really done anything yet to abuse his powers. I don't even know if he knows what all his powers are as president. And that worries me. He will learn. After he learns how the presidency works, he could become much more dangerous, because his personality doesn't change. Once presidents find their powers, they don't give them up. They use them.

Being president does seem a lot more stressful than being vice president.

All Presidents start out to run a crusade but after a couple of years they find they are running something less heroic and much more intractable: namely the presidency. The people are well cured by then of election fever, during which they think they are choosing Moses. In the third year, they look on the man as a sinner and a bumble and begin to poke around for rumors of another Messiah.

A president has to provide leadership to gain support.

One of the things you discover about being president is that there are all these rules and norms and laws and you got to pay attention to them.

As president, I could run the Trump organization, great, great company, and I could run the company - the country. I'd do a very good job, but I don't want to do that.

I've worked for four presidents and watched two others up close, and I know that there's no such thing as a routine day in the Oval Office.

I take running for president and being president really seriously. It's a - maybe the toughest job in the world, right? And I knew that there was unfinished business from the successful two terms of President Obama, whom I had served, but that we needed to go further on the economy, on health care, and so much else.

Any President who performs his duties diligently has no time for leisure.

The Presidency is not an office to be either solicited or declined.

I ended up being the 43rd president of the United States. It was an awesome experience, and I'm glad I did it.

Trump's been a public personality forever, and that's fine if you want him to be a reality-TV host, but if you want him to be president, there's a different standard.

Barack Obama is incompetent. All he wants to do is campaign, and the last thing he wants to happen is to have Donald Trump terminate Obamacare.

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

I believe that the president should be excused from some of the burdens of ordinary citizenship while serving in office. This is not something I necessarily thought in the 1980s or 1990s. Like many Americans at that time, I believed that the president should be required to shoulder the same obligations that we all carry.

All modern U.S. presidents are perforce politicians, prisoners of their past pronouncements, their party, their constituency, and their colleagues.