No one who has not had the responsibility can really understand what it is like to be President, not even his closest aides or members of his immediate family. There is no end to the chain of responsibility that binds him, and he is never allowed to forget that he is President.
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A man who is not interested in politics is not doing his patriotic duty toward maintaining the constitution of the United States.Harry S. Truman
I have tried my best to give the nation everything I had in me. There are probably a million people who could have done the job better than I did it, but I had the job and I always quote an epitaph on a tombstone in a cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona 'Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damndest.'
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It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.
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Give me a one-handed economist All my economists say, 'on one hand ... on the other.'
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Everybody has the right to express what he thinks. That, of course, lets the crackpots in. But if you cannot tell a crackpot when you see one, then you ought to be taken in.
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