“When someone wins, and someone is inaugurated, he becomes president, events happen . . . and people forget the circumstances of his becoming president.”
William Kristol
“To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world a better place...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“He has to. That's his job, ... That's what happens when you run for president. You don't know what might happen like this.”
Laura Bush
“It could happen to anyone when you get hired by a different president. There's a difference in philosophies. It happens. It's a change in CEOs. They have their own people, their own philosophies, and it's different than what Bob stands for.”
Rick Pitino
“When the president decides something on Monday, he still believes it on Wednesday - no matter what happened Tuesday.”
Stephen Colbert
“People are ... particularly risk-averse in bad times. It would be much easier, ironically, to elect a woman president when the economy is good and we weren't at war.”
Celinda Lake
“People thought the war was over in May of 2003 when President Bush landed on the cruiser under the banner that said mission accomplished. Here we are billions of dollars and thousands of lives later and it's still going on.”
Chris Schwartz
