I thought it altogether proper that I should take a brief furlough from official duties at Washington to mingle with you here to-d...ay as a comrade, because every President of the United States must realize that the strength of the Government, its defence in war, the army that is to muster under its banner when our Nation is assailed, is to be found here in the masses of our people.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The President of the United States ... should strive to be always mindful of the fact that he serves his party best who serves his... country best.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Roughly speaking, the President of the United States knows what his job is. Constitution and custom spell it out, for him as well ...as for us. His wife has no such luck. The First Lady has no rules; rather each new woman must make her own.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Some of the offers that have come to me would never have come if I had not been President. That means these people are trying to h...ire not Calvin Coolidge, but a former President of the United States. I can't make that kind of use of the office.... I can't do anything that might take away from the Presidency any of its dignity, or any of the faith people have in it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The veto is a President's Constitutional right, given to him by the drafters of the Constitution because they wanted it as a check... against irresponsible Congressional action. The veto forces Congress to take another look at legislation that has been passed. I think this is a responsible tool for a president of the United States, and I have sought to use it responsibly.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Colonel "Bat" Guano: Okay, I'm going to get your money for you. But if you don't get the President of the United States on that ph...one, you know what's going to happen to you? Group Captain Lionel Mandrake: What? Colonel "Bat" Guano: You're going to have to answer to the Coca-Cola company.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who ...try to tell them the truth. A Galileo could no more be elected President of the United States than he could be elected Pope of Rome. Both posts are reserved for men favored by God with an extraordinary genius for swathing the bitter facts of life in bandages of soft illusion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The professional celebrity, male and female, is the crowning result of the star system of a society that makes a fetish of competi...tion. In America, this system is carried to the point where a man who can knock a small white ball into a series of holes in the ground with more efficiency than anyone else thereby gains social access to the President of the United States.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »