Most of us enjoy preaching, and I’ve got such a bully pulpit!
—Theodore Roosevelt, 1905
The Presidency is not merely an administrative office. That’s the least of it. It is more than an engineering job, efficient or inefficient. It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership. All our great Presidents were leaders of thought at times when certain historic ideas in the life of the nation had to be clarified.
—Franklin D. Roosevelt, September 11, 1932
On my desk I have a motto which says “The buck stops here.”
—Harry S Truman, December 19, 1952