By nominating Chuck Hagel to be his Defense secretary President Obama is putting forward an aloof contrarian who doesn't suffer fools - a striving politician who considers himself above politics.

I honestly believe that there's an element in this country in our politics that does not want to see a businessman succeed at getting the nomination for the Republican party and does not want me to succeed at becoming President of the United States of America.

This has always been the way of presidential politics. The president rises above the fray while his surrogates go on the attack. They throw the spears and fling the mud he sits upon the throne.

One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President.

What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly I shall not seek and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as president.

I was in civil society long before I was ever in politics or my husband was ever even elected president.

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.

I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot.

Frankly I don't mind not being President. I just mind that someone else is.

The United States brags about its political system but the President says one thing during the election something else when he takes office something else at midterm and something else when he leaves.

The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it but somebody always does.

I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.

If you don't like the President it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don't like the Governor it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you don't like me 90 cents.

You may think the president is all-powerful but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord.

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President I'm beginning to believe it.

Oh that lovely title ex-president.

Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.

All the president is is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering kissing and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.

Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically by definition be disqualified from ever doing so.

When I was asked to be Writer in Residence at Edinburgh I thought you can't teach poetry. This is ridiculous.

The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.

President George W. Bush is the first American president to call openly for two-states Israel and Palestine living side by side in peace and security.

We were so shocked by how fast that war went that President Bush did not have a plan a peace plan.

I am running for President of the United States to enable the Goddess of Peace to encircle within her arms all the children of this country and all the children of the world.