How can a president not be an actor?

If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth.

Not everybody aspires to be a bank president or a nuclear scientist, but everybody wants to do something with one's life that will give him pride and a sense of accomplishment.

The thought of being President frightens me and I do not think I want the job.

[The most effective president, he told Forbes magazine 11 months ago, was Harry Truman, because] everybody who worked for him worshiped him because he was absolutely trustworthy. ... His great strength was not charisma, as is commonly thought, but his awareness and acceptance of exactly what he could do and what he could not do.

A tree's a tree. How many more do you need to look at?