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"We've had presidents that have put their stock into account and they didn't know what their stock mix was and I like that. And I think Donald Trump has agreed that he would do the same on his stock. He's either sold it or will do it."
"The worst of all fears is the fear of living"
"A President has a great chance; his position is almost that of a king and a prime minister rolled into one. Once he has left office he cannot do very much; and he is a fool if he fails to realize it all and to be profoundly thankful for having had the great chance."
"I never keep boys waiting. It's a hard trial for a boy to wait."
"No other President ever enjoyed the Presidency as I did."
"Oh, if only I could be President and Congress, too, just for ten minutes."
"I have had a great time as president."
"Don't hit at all if you can help it; don't hit a man if you can possibly avoid it; but if you do hit him, put him to sleep."
"I would a great deal rather be anything, say professor of history, than vice president."
"I must be wanting to be President. Every young man does. But I won't let myself think of it; I must not, because if I do, I will begin to work for it; I'll be careful, calculating, cautious in word and act, and so - I'll beat myself."
"I don't think any President ever enjoyed himself more than I did. Moreover, I don't think any ex-President ever enjoyed himself more."
"A President has a great chance; his position is almost that of a king and a prime minister rolled into one."
"There is much to dislike about President Obama's approach to the financial crisis. But opposition, it seems, will have to come from somewhere other than conservatism. The party out of power is also a party out of touch."
"As you may recall, Truman was extremely unpopular when he finally left Washington in 1953, thanks largely to the Korean War. Today, however, he is thought to have been a solidly good president, a 'Near Great' even, in the terminology of those surveys of historians they do every now and then."
"If you haven't already told your kids 'don't fellate the president' then you're probably a bad parent."
"An individual, thinking himself injured, makes more noise than a State."
"I feel much alarmed at the prospect of seeing General Jackson President. He is the most unfit man I know for such a place."
"Tobacco is a culture productive of infinite wretchedness."
"[The People] are the ultimate, guardians of their own liberty."
"Unless things change radically, President Bush will be the first President since Herbert Hoover to have presided over a net loss of jobs during his administration."
