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The presidency of the United States is an incredible thing. You have an ability to effectuate change at the highest level.

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.

I think a lot of presidents learn to be president by being president.

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.

I am not the President. Instead, I hold an even higher office, that of citizen of the United States.

Being president is like running a cemetery: you've got a lot of people under you and nobody's listening.

I prefer that people remember me as a president who made reforms rather than a president who did nothing.

But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.

When you see how the President makes political or policy decisions, you see who he is. The essence of the Presidency is decision-making.