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Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.

I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You've got to just stand there and take it.

My fellow citizens, the American Presidency is not supposed to be a journey of personal discovery.

I don't find any presidents all that sexy. They're not very rock'n'roll.

The presidency is not an office job.

I think that the presidency really brings out the best in a lot of people.

True, most Americans give lip service to the proposition that even the most exalted among us have their flaws, but we are eager to believe that presidents manage to rise above the limitations that beset the rest of us.

The presidency awed me, but presidents do not. Perhaps I have always expected too much of them, but I believe that when they reach the highest office in the land, they should live up to the greatest honor that can come to a person in American political life. Some have stood the test better than others.

I am very glad as well that it is a presidency built on a campaign that emphasized ideas. I hope it will be a presidency that will enable everybody to be part of and proud of.