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The presidency awed me, but presidents do not. Perhaps I have always expected too much of them, but I believe that when they reach the highest office in the land, they should live up to the greatest honor that can come to a person in American political life. Some have stood the test better than others.

Sexy ain't guys like Churchill and Lincoln.

I have seen that our best presidents were the do-nothing presidents: Millard Fillmore, Warren G. Harding. When you have a president who does things, we are all in serious trouble. If he does anything at all, if he gets up at night to go the bathroom, somehow, mystically, trouble will ensue.

I think George W. Bush has a warm, engaging personality. But, you know, the presidency is more than just a popularity contest.

FDR had a certain charisma, at least in his first term, with the big grin, the cigarette holder at a jaunty angle, and the battered hat on his imposing head, but no other American president since then has had it except JFK - indeed, some of them have been positively anti-charismatic, like Gerald Ford, Carter, and the Bushes.

With me it is exceptionally true that the Presidency is no bed of roses.

Presidents often disappoint, but first ladies rarely do.

Folks, I can tell you I've known eight presidents, three of them intimately.

I think as - all in all, it's better to have a cool president than a not cool president.