Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
Being president, you may have more power than anyone else in the country, but you quickly discover that you have much, much less than you thought you'd have going in. You're hamstrung in ways you never dreamed of.
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.
Frankly, I don't mind not being President. I just mind that someone else is.
That's the good thing about being president, I can do whatever I want.
There are just some things about being president that are difficult.
When you get to be President, there are all those things, the honors, the twenty-one gun salutes, all those things. You have to remember it isn't for you. It's for the Presidency.
I've seen firsthand that being president doesn't change who you are. It reveals who you are.
A president either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a moment.
Being president is like running a cemetery: you've got a lot of people under you and nobody's listening.