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    The President is merely the most important among a large number
    of public servants. He should be supported or opposed exactly to
    the degree which is warranted by his good conduct or bad conduct,
    his efficiency or inefficiency in rendering loyal, able, and
    disinterested service to the nation as a whole. Therefore it is
    absolutely necessary that there should be full liberty to tell
    the truth about his acts, and this means that it is exactly as
    necessary to blame him when he does wrong as to praise him when
    he does right. Any other attitude in an American citizen is both
    base and servile. To announce that there must be no criticism of
    the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or
    wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally
    treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should
    be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more
    important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him
    than about any one else.

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You really have to experience the feeling of being with the
president in the oval office. . . . read more

You really have to experience the feeling of being with the
president in the oval office. . . . It's a disease I came to call
Ovalitis.

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The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when read more

The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves.

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No easy problems ever come to the President of the United States.
If they are easy to solve, somebody read more

No easy problems ever come to the President of the United States.
If they are easy to solve, somebody else has solved them.

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The vice-presidency isn't worth a pitcher of warm piss.

The vice-presidency isn't worth a pitcher of warm piss.

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I also wish that the Pledge of Allegiance were directed at the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, as it read more

I also wish that the Pledge of Allegiance were directed at the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, as it is when the President takes his oath of office, rather than to the flag and the nation

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We have a cancer within, close to the Presidency, that is
growing.

We have a cancer within, close to the Presidency, that is
growing.

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The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter read more

The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands.

by Lyndon B. Johnson Found in: Presidency Quotes,
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Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow in my footsteps, and preside over read more

Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow in my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the president's spouse. I wish him well.

by Barbara Bush Found in: Presidency Quotes,
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A president's hardest task is not to do what is right but to know what is right

A president's hardest task is not to do what is right but to know what is right

by Lyndon B. Johnson Found in: Presidency Quotes,
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