My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Ladies and gentlemen, I take office at a time in which the world is living in extreme contradictions.
I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
Every time I bestow a vacant office I make a hundred discontented persons and one ingrate.
The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare.
There is but one nation on the globe from which we have anything serious to apprehend, but that is the most powerful that now exists or ever did exist. I refer to Great Britain.
But this is neither here nor there why do I mention it? Ask my pen, it governs me, I govern not it.
There is absolutely no way that I would enter that world. I would never run for office.
Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
The office of the president is the most powerful in the world. It is also, at times, the most powerless.
The office of President is a great one; to every true American it seems the greatest on earth. And to me, as I was engaged in weaving a background of music for the pageantry of it, there came a deeper realization of the effect of that office on the man.