If you don’t have enough self-awareness to see the element of megalomania involved in thinking you should be President, then you probably shouldn’t be President. There’s a slight madness to thinking you should be the leader of the free world.
—Barack Obama, November 1, 2007, ABC News
Are you going to try to be President? Shouldn’t you be Vice-President first?
—Malia Obama to her father at his swearing-in as U.S. Senator