"Power is poison. It's effect on Presidents had always been tragic."

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"Under a Presidential government, a nation has, except at the electing moment, no influence; it has not the ballot-box before it; its virtue is gone, and it must wait till its instant of despotism again returns."

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"You don't need to know who's playing on the White House tennis court to be a good president. A president has many roles."

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"Wilson adventured for the whole of the human race. Not as a servant, but as a champion. So pure was this motive, so unfrocked with anything that his worst enemies could find, except the mildest and most excusable, a personal vanity, practically the minimum to be human, that in a sense his adventure is that of humanity itself. In Wilson, the whole of mankind breaks camp, sets out from home and wrestles with the universe and its gods."

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"Anybody who wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office."

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"If presidents don't do it to their wives, they do it to the country."

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"Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it."

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"I'd rather be right than President."

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"All Presidents start out to run a crusade but after a couple of years they find they are running something less heroic and much more intractable: namely the presidency. The people are well cured by then of election fever, during which they think they are choosing Moses. In the third year, they look on the man as a sinner and a bumble and begin to poke around for rumors of another Messiah."

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"When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I'm beginning to believe it."

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