No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
As I look at President Bush, I think he will ultimately be judged as a man of extremely high character.
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.
Anybody who wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.
No man has the right to use the great powers of the Presidency to lead the people, indirectly, into war.
A President cannot always be popular.
I do not believe any president can bind a successor president to give up his fundamental role as protector of the country.
Probably we'll think of Bush in years to come as an American hero.
The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does.
Most people have this protective view of the presidency. Anybody who holds the office is always gonna get the benefit of the doubt unless the media spends four years destroying them like they did Bush, and with Bush not returning fire.
As soon as a regular guy like Bill Clinton becomes the president, he wears a mantle of greatness. He's the president.