Action Quote by Robert Dallek

American presidents always avoid shaking hands with brutal dictators, except when it's advantageous to do so.

— Anonymous

The president cannot escape from his office.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

We can't give excessive, unfettered power to a president to act alone, to bind an entire country to a set of principles, a set…

— Mike Lee

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

I do not believe any president can bind a successor president to give up his fundamental role as protector of the country.

— Ted Cruz

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

A President cannot always be popular.

— Harry S. Truman

He who loves a dictator is much more dangerous than the dictator himself.

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

“No one can imagine the kind of pressure being president of the U.S. imposes on an individual and how easily a president can be…

— Ronald Kessler

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

— Douglas Adams

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

No authoritarian leader cedes power easily or turns it over to bodies he cannot control.

— Stephen Kinzer