Time Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Any man who has been placed in the White House cannot feel that it is the result of his own exertions or his own…

— Calvin Coolidge

The office of the president is meant to confer dignity.

— Neil Macdonald

“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

He has to do the heavy lifting and the windows and the wash, and also protect the president.

— Alan K. Simpson

“Being President is like being the groundskeeper in a cemetery: there are a lot of people under you, but none of them are listening.”

— Bill Clinton

“There is usually a moment in the life of a new president when he begins to see himself not as an aspirant desperate to…

— Jon Meacham

“The really painful surprise is that so many people based their hopes on his words, rather than on the record of his deeds. What…

— Thomas Sowell

“The President is up there in the White House for you . . . . it is not you who are here for him,”

— Walt Whitman

“President Trump has demonstrated that putting a billionaire into the White House does not work, as the rich are getting richer and the poor…

— Steven Magee

“The president spends most of his time playing golf and vacationing. But the times he’s away from the office are the times he’s most…

— Jarod Kintz

[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

Being President is like the man who was tarred and feathered and ridden out of town on a rail... A man in the crowd…

— Abraham Lincoln