Assuming Quote by David Shapiro

A president who aspires to be recognized as a global leader should not personally stake out a foreign-policy goal, commit himself eloquently to its…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

A president has an inescapable responsibility to provide direction: What are we trying to achieve? What are we trying to prevent? Why? To do…

— Henry Kissinger

Sometimes you have positional authority, and that is very hopeful. But the reality of it is the nation responds to moral authority, when we…

— Tim Scott

[The American public demands] a sense of legitimacy from and in the presidency. There is more to this than dignity, more than propriety. The…

— James David Barber

Let him [the President] once win the admiration and confidence of the country, and no other single force can withstand him, no combination of…

— Woodrow Wilson

“While you and I are allowed the luxury of our pain, president isn't. A president must take into account how his citizens feel and…

— George Friedman

“We need to step back and ask ourselves whether we are being led by people of integrity with real, honest concerns, or being manipulated…

— Joseph Befumo

No man can well doubt the propriety of placing a president of the United States under the most solemn obligations to preserve, protect, and…

— Joseph Story

I suppose, indeed, that in public life, a man whose political principles have any decided character and who has energy enough to give them…

— Thomas Jefferson

When you take on the position of president, you are committing yourself to, first and foremost, protecting the American people. You are accepting an…

— Barack Obama

A president must make decisions based upon principle and stand by the principles by which he makes decisions in order to achieve peace.

— George W. Bush

“It is a great advantage to a President, and a major source of safety to the country, for him to know that he is…

— Calvin Coolidge