Attention Quote by Douglas Adams

The Presidents job, is not to wield power himself, but to lead attention away from it.

— Douglas Adams

People tend to judge presidents on how the economy performs, and yet we don't expect them to have the power to do much about…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

For presidential power to meaningfully expand, it is not enough for a president to simply make a power grab.

— Ross Douthat

I think that presidents don't give up power that has accrued to them by the precedent of previous presidents. Even when they say they…

— Rachel Maddow

The President can exercise no power which cannot be fairly and reasonably traced to some specific grant of power in the Federal Constitution or…

— William Howard Taft

Presidents have to learn how to adapt. Every president comes into the job; it's different than they expect. They must adapt.

— Anonymous

Presidential powers are not exercised by a body or group. The Constitution vests 'all executive power' in one and only one person - the…

— William Barr

Historians sometimes view presidents very differently from the way the public did at the time. Sometimes they don't.

— Michael Beschloss

The presidency is not an office job.

— Jakaya Kikwete

Presidential power is the power to persuade.

— Richard Neustadt

Presidents are not kings.

— Ketanji Brown Jackson

One of the things that will probably need to be addressed is in the treatment of history, i.e. the Presidential Papers Act. If they…

— Ted Gup