Asks Quote by Colin Powell

Yes is the answer to that question. I've enjoyed being in government... if it would be useful for me to serve I would like…

— Charles Clarke

The bottom line is that I have a job to do to help get the new administration ready. If there's some role for me…

— Chris Christie

I've been asked several times over the years to become president, and I've always said no, because I didn't want to give up all…

— Paul Auster

I would sit and talk to any president who wishes to talk to me, but I'm not anxious to rule it in.

— Colin Powell

As Vice President one of the things I spend time on is the continuity of government; that's the main reason I'm here is a…

— Dick Cheney

No president who performs his duties faithfully and conscientiously can have any leisure. If he entrusts the details and smaller matters to subordinates constant…

— James K. Polk

I want no presidency; I want to do my duty. No denunciations here, or out of this House, can deflect me a single inch…

— John C. Calhoun

To speak practically and as a citizen, unlike those who call themselves no-government men, I ask for, not at once no government, but at…

— Henry David Thoreau

The president actually is there to complement the government in power. If they have done something that is not proper, it is the duty…

— Tan Cheng Bock

Presidents may go to the seashore or to the mountains. Cabinet officers may go about the country explaining how fortunate the country is in…

— William Howard Taft

When the president offered me this job, he told me that if there were situations in which I needed to speak to him or…

— Josh Earnest

I'm not driven to get back into politics. It's not on my top five things to do before I die, but saying that, I…

— J. C. Watts