I made a mistake by being ejected from the presidency. Next time, I will choose a Cabinet which will allow me to be life President.

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

Well, I screwed it up real good, didn’t I?

As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing.

Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.

Donald Trump is a phenomenon that foreign countries haven’t seen. So it is a shocking experience to them that he came in to office.

The trouble with Nixon is that he’s a serious politics junkie. He’s totally hooked and like any other junkie, he’s a bummer to have around, especially as President.

We need someone with superb judgement in their own right because, yes, a president can hire the best advisors on Earth, but I guarantee you this: Five advisors will give five different opinions. And it is the president – and the president alone – who always makes the final call.

There is probably a perverse pride in my administration… that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who’s occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can’t be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.

Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency.

I can’t imagine what this place would be – I can’t imagine what the country would be – with Donald Trump as our president.

There’s nothing in the Constitution that says the President stops being President in his last year.

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

Al Qaeda is still a threat. We cannot pretend somehow that because Barack Hussein Obama got elected as president, suddenly everything is going to be OK.

The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands.

It sure is hell to be president.

The issues a president faces are not black and white, and cannot be boiled down into 140 characters. Because when you have the nuclear codes at your fingertips and the military at your command, you can’t make snap decisions. You can’t have a thin skin or the tendency to lash out.

We are all the President’s men.

Watergate had become the center of the media’s universe, and during the remaining year of my presidency the media tried to force everything else to revolve around it.

If I make a mistake and finish 10th when we should have finished ninth, then I will be unhappy.

The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

Let me even say before I even get inaugurated, during the transition we are going to be having meetings all across the country with community organizations so that you have input into the agenda for the next presidency of the United States of America.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Unlike some politicians, I can admit to a mistake.

Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past.

George Bush made a mistake when he referred to the Saddam Hussein regime as ‚evil.‘ Every liberal and leftist knows how to titter at such black-and-white moral absolutism.

In my heart, I’m confident I could make a good president.

Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.

There were the questions of what kind of First Lady I would be, what issues would I focus on. Those were the questions that were being pounded on me through the campaign. A lot of times, I wondered what in the world Barack was even getting us into.

All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself.

A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.

The issues that cross a president’s desk are never easy. The easy questions don’t even get to the president.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.

So, for example, a country was into recession right after I was sworn in, a dot-com bust had taken place. Then the attacks of September the 11th, and then of course the great financial meltdown in the -the fundamental question facing any presidency is how do you deal with the hand you’re dealt?

I don’t think I would run for president.

You know, one of the things I think you understand as president is you’re held responsible for everything, but you don’t always have control of everything, right?

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You’ve got to just stand there and take it.

Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake.

Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.

When I graduated from law school in 1959, there wasn’t a single woman on any federal bench. It wouldn’t be a realistic ambition for a woman to want to become a federal judge. It wasn’t realistic until Jimmy Carter became our president.

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

By disgracing and degrading the presidency of the United States, by fleeing the White House like a diseased cur, Richard Nixon broke the heart of the American Dream.

No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.

I think I lived those years very impersonally. It was almost as though I had erected someone outside myself who was the president’s wife. I was lost somewhere deep down inside myself. That is the way I felt and worked until I left the White House.

We need an adult in the White House. When making life-or-death, war-or-peace decisions, a president can’t just pop off or lash out irrationally.

I do not like broccoli. And I haven’t liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I’m President of the United States and I’m not going to eat any more broccoli.

People make a big fuss over you when you’re President. But I’m very serious about doing everything I can to make sure that it doesn’t go to my head.

I just didn’t want to get out there anymore; I didn’t want to get back into what I call ‚the swamp.‘ And the other reason why is I don’t think it’s good for the presidency for a former president to be opining about his successor. President Obama’s got plenty of critics – and I’m just not gonna be one.

I had been playing for a while, and I asked Louisville Slugger to send me a dozen flame treated bats. But when I got it, I realized they had sent me a box of ashes.

It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it… anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

I was training to be an electrician. I suppose I got wired the wrong way round somewhere along the line.

The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.

One of the roles of the Presidency is to lead a political party. Having a President in office is usually a huge advantage to a party because it gives the party a mouthpiece and an advocate at the highest level.

In testing, you make a mistake, you just say ‚OK we’ll have another go‘ instead of it being the only chance you get.

The Secretary of Hygiene or Physical Culture will be far more important in the cabinet of the President of the United States who holds office in the year 2035 than the Secretary of War.

If people wonder, yes, Hillary Clinton is my friend. She has been a friend to me and Barack and Malia and Sasha, and Bill and Chelsea have been embracing and supportive from the very day my husband took the oath of office.

When you get to be President, there are all those things, the honors, the twenty-one gun salutes, all those things. You have to remember it isn’t for you. It’s for the Presidency.

It would be an egregious mistake to ever refer to me in the same breath as most of the people I write about.