This has always been the way of presidential politics. The president rises above the fray while his surrogates go on the attack. They throw the spears and fling the mud he sits upon the throne.

One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President.

What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly I shall not seek and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as president.

I was in civil society long before I was ever in politics or my husband was ever even elected president.

The trouble with Nixon is that he's a serious politics junkie. He's totally hooked and like any other junkie he's a bummer to have around especially as President.

I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot.

Frankly I don't mind not being President. I just mind that someone else is.

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.

The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it but somebody always does.

I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.