Becoming Quote by Thomas Jefferson

I reached a situation in which I cannot conduct the presidency.

— Roh Moo-hyun

You have, at the same time, placed your confidence in me, and in my ability to render a free, fair judgment - to uphold…

— John F. Kennedy

I quitted my Seat in the House of Delegates, from a Conviction that I was no longer able to do any essential Service.

— George Mason

I didn't want to be a senator, but I considered it anyway.

— Cenk Uygur

I was not elected to serve one party.

— George W. Bush

“Long habit had accustomed the American people to the notion of a party in power, and of a President as its creature and organ,…

— James Russell Lowell

Even if I was a Republican, George Bush would have pushed me out of that party.

— Tucker Max

Had I been chosen President again, I am certain I could not have lived another year.

— John Adams

I ran for the presidency, despite hopeless odds, to demonstrate the sheer will and refusal to accept the status quo.

— Shirley Chisholm

All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg