People make a big fuss over you when you're President. But I'm very serious about doing everything I can to make sure that it doesn't go to my head.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I'm used to people not paying me a whole lot of attention and underestimating me and, frankly, for me a big challenge is to have people believe that I can be the president of the United States.
The idea that I should become president seems to me too visionary to require a serious answer. It has never entered my head, nor is it likely to enter the head of any other person.
If it was something that I really committed myself to, I don't think there's anything that could stop me becoming President of the United States.
In my case, I think people are surprised that I'm doing exactly what I said I was going to do when I ran, because that's not the typical politician.
I've seen firsthand that being president doesn't change who you are. It reveals who you are.
If I get to be president, what can I do anyway? With Congress and the press, what chance do I have to make basic changes?
Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.
That's the good thing about being president, I can do whatever I want.
Being president is like running a cemetery: you've got a lot of people under you and nobody's listening.
I want no presidency; I want to do my duty. No denunciations here, or out of this House, can deflect me a single inch from going directly at what I aim, and that is, the good of the country. I have always acted upon it, and I will always act upon it.