I've spent quality time in the aerospace community, with my service on two presidential commissions, but at heart, I'm an academic. Being an academic means I don't wield power over person, place or thing. I don't command armies; I don't lead labor unions. All I have is the power of thought.

Some people can be president, some people can speak, some people, you know, anything that's positive, man - a dentist, a doctor. Just hang in there and never give up, and find out what is your talent. First you got to find your talent and just stick with your talent, and I guarantee you'll get there, man.

President Trump has a magnetic personality and exudes positive energy, which is infectious to those around him.

A President cannot always be popular.

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.

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.

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

Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.

By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.

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

I would rather have peace in the world than be President.

And we ought to work our diplomacy first and I think it's a reason it's going to respond increasingly to our diplomacy particularly with the president's direct involvement in the peace process, and I think that's extraordinarily important.

Mr. President, prime ministers, let us have ambitions: ambitions to move beyond the violence and occupation, to the day when two states, Palestine and Israel, can live together side by side in peace and security.

When I was elected President nobody asked me to negotiate between Israel and Egypt. It was not even a question raised in my campaign. But I felt that one of the reasons that I was elected President was to try to bring peace to the Holy Land.

May our former president, who brought peace to millions, find it for himself.

We have told the Iranian regime countless times, do not confuse President Trump's strategic patience with weakness.