Some of the Presidents were great and some of them weren't. I can say that, because I wasn't one of the great Presidents, but I had a good time trying to be one, I can tell you that.
Harry S Truman
Related I don't know if I have a favorite color. KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl. KATE MIDDLETON It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained. QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and... QUEEN ELIZABETH II My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have to be seen to be believed. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast. QUEEN ELIZABETH II The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t... QUEEN ELIZABETH II To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in th... QUEEN ELIZABETH II What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something e... QUEEN ELIZABETH II To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts an... QUEEN ELIZABETH II Grief is the price we pay for love. QUEEN ELIZABETH II The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a nobl... QUEEN ELIZABETH II At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Chr... QUEEN ELIZABETH II For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first. QUEEN ELIZABETH II The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses w... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your s... QUEEN ELIZABETH II Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are g... QUEEN ELIZABETH II We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the man... QUEEN ELIZABETH II Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as... QUEEN ELIZABETH II These wretched babies don't come until they are ready. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has t... QUEEN ELIZABETH II In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters... QUEEN ELIZABETH II No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and o... QUEEN ELIZABETH II We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want... PRINCE WILLIAM Family is the most important thing in the world. PRINCESS DIANA You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I ... CATHERINE THE GREAT With the right help, children have a good chance of overcoming their issues while they are still you... KATE MIDDLETON As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend. KING SOLOMON I don't mind a big fascinator. I think there is more scope for artwork in a fascinator rather th... ZARA PHILLIPS I was always told from the hat-makers that you should have your hair up because it shows the hat mor... ZARA PHILLIPS I don't think I'll still be riding at 40. There are a couple of people who are still riding ... ZARA PHILLIPS My dad's not a big talker. ZARA PHILLIPS My dad can be pretty critical sometimes. ZARA PHILLIPS I'd love to have kids, but not at the moment. ZARA PHILLIPS You cannot make horses 'safe.' ZARA PHILLIPS Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter wha... ZARA PHILLIPS It's stupid to say that I don't like being in the public eye, but I don't like doing stu... ZARA PHILLIPS I'm an affectionate person. ZARA PHILLIPS People still text me to say that there is something about me in the paper, and what really annoys me... ZARA PHILLIPS Sometimes people will come up in the street and say: 'My daughter loves you, will you sign an au... ZARA PHILLIPS Taking part in an Olympics on home ground is something you dream about. ZARA PHILLIPS My brother and I have been able to get on and have been very lucky to do things with our family that... ZARA PHILLIPS I don't think about the media. ZARA PHILLIPS I love the sport and being competitive. ZARA PHILLIPS The horses are all characters, all personalities. Some you get along with, some you don't, some ... ZARA PHILLIPS I hate having my picture taken. ZARA PHILLIPS Unfortunately in sport it's either good or bad. You've got to take the highs and the lows. ZARA PHILLIPS My mother is massively into sailing, so we always had Musto clothes, and it went on from there, real... ZARA PHILLIPS The senior members of the royal family work very hard and I don't think people quite realise tha... ZARA PHILLIPS In our sport you're very lucky to find a horse of a lifetime and I found mine relatively early. ... ZARA PHILLIPS I don't have a stylist, and I do most of my shopping online, just because it's easier. I don... ZARA PHILLIPS I think Facebook's dangerous. So many people I know get into trouble with Facebook... I'd ra... ZARA PHILLIPS I'm not a princess anyway so I find that quite weird to be labelled as one. ZARA PHILLIPS Smoking is hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, and dangerous to the lungs. KING JAMES I My dear mamma is quite right when she says that we must lay down principles and not depart from them... MARIE ANTOINETTE I never make a trip to the United States without visiting a supermarket. To me they are more fascina... WALLIS SIMPSON PS: It's all gossip about the prince. I'm not in the habit of taking my girlfriends' bea... WALLIS SIMPSON I am so anxious for you not to abdicate and I think the fact that you do is going to put me in the w... WALLIS SIMPSON I hate this place. I shall hate it to my grave. WALLIS SIMPSON I look a hundred and weigh 110 - you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me. WALLIS SIMPSON A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compe... WALLIS SIMPSON Never explain, never complain. WALLIS SIMPSON You have no idea how hard it is to live out a great romance. WALLIS SIMPSON I have always had the courage for the new things that life sometimes offers. WALLIS SIMPSON For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat. WALLIS SIMPSON Forgive me for not writing but this man is exhausting. WALLIS SIMPSON You can never be too rich or too thin. WALLIS SIMPSON A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity. KING SOLOMON It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most... FREDERICK THE GREAT Addiction is a hugely complex and destructive disease, and its impact can be simply devastating. All... KATE MIDDLETON There is nothing new except what has been forgotten. MARIE ANTOINETTE I have seen all, I have heard all, I have forgotten all. MARIE ANTOINETTE I think change needs to be egoless. It's not about my leaving my fingerprints or a legacy. It... QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist. QUEEN VICTORIA I can make a lord, but only God can make a gentleman. KING JAMES I I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse. CHARLES V I feel very, very lucky that George has got a little sister. KATE MIDDLETON It would be doing me great injustice to think that I have any feeling of indifference to my country;... MARIE ANTOINETTE I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble. AUGUSTUS A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in. FREDERICK THE GREAT Nothing is more useless in developing a nation's economy than a gun, and nothing blocks the road... HUSSEIN OF JORDAN It is necessary to try to pass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life. QUEEN CHRISTINA There's nothing like a jolly good disaster to get people to start doing something. PRINCE CHARLES We shouldn't judge people through the prism of our own stereotypes. QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN I don't even know how to use a parking meter, let alone a phone box. PRINCESS DIANA What must it be like for a little boy to read that daddy never loved mummy? PRINCESS DIANA The kindness and affection from the public have carried me through some of the most difficult period... PRINCESS DIANA People think that at the end of the day a man is the only answer. Actually, a fulfilling job is bett... PRINCESS DIANA I don't want expensive gifts; I don't want to be bought. I have everything I want. I just wa... PRINCESS DIANA
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The President is always abused. If he isn't, he isn't doing anything. HARRY S TRUMAN If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. HARRY S TRUMAN When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship. HARRY S TRUMAN The buck stops here! HARRY S TRUMAN Ive said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representativ... HARRY S TRUMAN People are very much wrought up about the Communist bugaboo. HARRY S TRUMAN They said we were soft, that we would not fight, that we could not win. We are not a warlike nation.... HARRY S TRUMAN I got very well acquainted with Joe Stalin, and I like old Joe! He is a decent fellow. But Joe is a ... HARRY S TRUMAN The Buck Stops Here HARRY S TRUMAN Shortly after I was elected, in Nineteen Hundred and Forty-eight, I made up my mind that I would not... HARRY S TRUMAN Whenever the press quits abusing me I know Im in the wrong pew. I dont mind it because when they thr... HARRY S TRUMAN The legislative job of the President is especially important to the people who have no special repre... HARRY S TRUMAN When contemplating General Eisenhower winning the Presidential election, Truman said, Hell sit here,... HARRY S TRUMAN You know, the greatest epitaph in the country is here in Arizona. Its in Tombstone, Ariz. , and this... HARRY S TRUMAN There has been a lot of talk lately about the burdens of the Presidency. Decisions that the Presiden... HARRY S TRUMAN Politics is a fascinating game, because politics is government. It is the art of government. HARRY S TRUMAN Im proud that Im a politician. A politician is a man who understands government, and it takes a poli... HARRY S TRUMAN On May 14 I was informed that the Provisional Government of Israel was planning to proclaim a Jewish... HARRY S TRUMAN A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants. HARRY S TRUMAN Whenever you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship. HARRY S TRUMAN You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cann... HARRY S TRUMAN Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship. HARRY S. TRUMAN It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. HARRY S. TRUMAN I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell. HARRY S. TRUMAN I never give them hell; I just tell them the truth and they think it is hell. HARRY S. TRUMAN Start slow and taper off. HARRY S. TRUMAN That government is best which governs least. HARRY S. TRUMAN I'm proud that I'm a politician. A politician is a man who understands government, and it takes a po... HARRY S. TRUMAN It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's v... HARRY S. TRUMAN Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima.... The force from which the su... HARRY S. TRUMAN All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it. HARRY S TRUMAN In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves...sel... HARRY S TRUMAN Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here. HARRY S TRUMAN But we are only termites on a planet and maybe when we bore too deeply into the planet there'll be a... HARRY S. TRUMAN The atom bomb was no great decision. It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteo... HARRY S TRUMAN How do you live a long life? Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast. HARRY S TRUMAN Intense feeling too often obscures the truth. HARRY S TRUMAN I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell. HARRY S TRUMAN If that's art, I'm a Hottentot! HARRY S TRUMAN Within the first few months I discovered that being president is like riding a tiger. A man has to k... HARRY S TRUMAN When a leader is in the Democratic Party he is a boss, and when he is in the Republican Party he is ... HARRY S TRUMAN A politician is a man who understands government and it takes a politician to run a government. A st... HARRY S TRUMAN It takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen y... HARRY S TRUMAN I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers. HARRY S TRUMAN How far would Moses have gone if he had taken a poll in Egypt? HARRY S TRUMAN The buck stops here. HARRY S TRUMAN Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship. HARRY S. TRUMAN Being a President is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep on riding or he is swallowed. HARRY S TRUMAN The president is the representative of the whole nation and he's the only lobbyist that all the one ... HARRY S TRUMAN When you get to be President, there are all those things, the honors, the twenty-one gun salutes, al... HARRY S TRUMAN All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, a... HARRY S TRUMAN I would rather have peace in the world than be President. HARRY S TRUMAN It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's vi... HARRY S TRUMAN A president either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of... HARRY S TRUMAN We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are. HARRY S TRUMAN Whenever a fellow tells me he is bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me. HARRY S TRUMAN We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication i... HARRY S TRUMAN All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it. HARRY S TRUMAN Give me a one-handed economist! All my economists say, On the one hand on the other. HARRY S TRUMAN We must build a new world, a far better world -- one in which the eternal dignity of man is respecte... HARRY S TRUMAN Whenever I make a bum decision, I go out and make another one. HARRY S TRUMAN I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says: Here lies Jack... HARRY S TRUMAN Being too good is apt to be uninteresting. HARRY S TRUMAN Well, I wouldn't say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be ... HARRY S TRUMAN Study men, not historians. HARRY S TRUMAN Whenever a man does the best he can, then that is all he can do. HARRY S TRUMAN I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if... HARRY S TRUMAN The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and actio... HARRY S TRUMAN It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose your own. HARRY S TRUMAN It isn't important who is ahead at one time or another, in either an election or a horse race. It... HARRY S TRUMAN If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. HARRY S TRUMAN If you can't convince them; confuse them. HARRY S TRUMAN I've said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representati... HARRY S. TRUMAN We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication i... HARRY S. TRUMAN I studied the lives of great men and famous women; and I found that the men and women who got to the... HARRY S TRUMAN I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then adv... HARRY S TRUMAN It's a recession when your neighbour loses his job; it's a depression when you lose your own. HARRY S. TRUMAN I don't give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it is hell. HARRY S TRUMAN Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast. HARRY S TRUMAN Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship. HARRY S TRUMAN When even one American - who has done nothing wrong - is forced by fear to shut his mind and close h... HARRY S TRUMAN America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determ... HARRY S TRUMAN The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to d... HARRY S TRUMAN The reward of suffering is experience. HARRY S TRUMAN A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes oppo... HARRY S TRUMAN If you can't convince them, confuse them. HARRY S TRUMAN In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... se... HARRY S TRUMAN You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog. HARRY S TRUMAN Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny. HARRY S TRUMAN A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader. HARRY S TRUMAN You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cann... HARRY S TRUMAN The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members... HARRY S TRUMAN Whenever a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me. HARRY S TRUMAN There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know. HARRY S TRUMAN Whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court he ceases to be your friend. HARRY S TRUMAN The atom bomb was no 'great decision.' It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal ... HARRY S TRUMAN Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afr... HARRY S TRUMAN Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stan... HARRY S TRUMAN Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don'... HARRY S TRUMAN You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in littl... HARRY S TRUMAN When a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me. HARRY S. TRUMAN The Buck Stops Here. HARRY S. TRUMAN The White House is the finest prison in the world. HARRY S. TRUMAN I have no desire to crow over anybody or to see anybody eating crow, figuratively or otherwise. We s... HARRY S TRUMAN This administration is going to be cussed and discussed for years to come. HARRY S TRUMAN You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belie... HARRY S TRUMAN If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. HARRY S. TRUMAN I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell. HARRY S TRUMAN Nixon is a shifty-eyed goddamn liar....He's one of the few in the history of this country to run for... HARRY S TRUMAN Men make history, and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society sta... HARRY S TRUMAN I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell. HARRY S TRUMAN If you can't convince them, confuse them. HARRY S TRUMAN We can never tell what is in store for us. HARRY S TRUMAN How do you live a long life? "Take a two- mile walk every morning before breakfast." HARRY S. TRUMAN Whenever the press quits abusing me I know I'm in the wrong pew. I don't mind it because when they t... HARRY S TRUMAN I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell. HARRY S TRUMAN All the President is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing an... HARRY S TRUMAN It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours. HARRY S TRUMAN I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell. HARRY S TRUMAN Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only on... HARRY S TRUMAN It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. HARRY S TRUMAN If you cannot convince them, confuse them. HARRY S TRUMAN I learned that a great leader is a man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't... HARRY S TRUMAN I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says: 'Here lies Jac... HARRY S TRUMAN Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive. And don't ever ... HARRY S TRUMAN Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. HARRY S TRUMAN Conceit is God's gift to little men. HARRY S TRUMAN I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then adv... HARRY S TRUMAN If you want to get elected, shake hands with 25, 000 people between and November 7. HARRY S TRUMAN When a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me. HARRY S TRUMAN It is amazing how much you can accomplish when it doesn't matter who gets the credit. HARRY S TRUMAN carry the battle to them. HARRY S TRUMAN It sure is hell to be president. HARRY S TRUMAN Men make history and not the other way around. HARRY S TRUMAN I was the only calm one in the house. You see I've been shot at by experts. HARRY S TRUMAN Well, I wouldn't say I was in the 'great' class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be gre... HARRY S TRUMAN I've had a few setbacks in my life, but I never gave up HARRY S TRUMAN If I'd known how much packing I'd have to do, I'd have run again. HARRY S TRUMAN It's plain hokum. If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em. It's an old political trick. But this time... HARRY S TRUMAN The best way to give advise to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to d... HARRY S TRUMAN Why, this fellow don't know any more about politics than a pig knows about Sunday. HARRY S TRUMAN To me party platforms are contracts with the people HARRY S TRUMAN A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15... HARRY S TRUMAN We're going to be buried out here. I like the idea because I may just want to get up some day and st... HARRY S TRUMAN It is terrible-and I mean terrible-nuisance to be kin to the president of the United States. HARRY S TRUMAN This is the day we have been waiting for since Pearl Harbor. This is the day when Fascism finally di... HARRY S TRUMAN When you've done the best you can, you can't do any better HARRY S TRUMAN The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members HARRY S TRUMAN Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustic... HARRY S TRUMAN If there is one basic element in our Constitution, it is civilian control of the military HARRY S TRUMAN The only thing new in this world is the history that you don't know HARRY S TRUMAN The President of the United States hears a hundred voices telling him that he is the greatest man in... HARRY S TRUMAN The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all. HARRY S TRUMAN I come to the office each morning and stay for long hours doing what has to be done to the best of m... HARRY S TRUMAN He wasn't used to being criticized, and he never did get it through his head that's what politics is... HARRY S TRUMAN Nixon is a shifty-eyed goddamn liar. . . . .He's one of the few in the history of this country to ru... HARRY S TRUMAN Whenever a fellow tells me he's bipartisan I know he's going to vote against me HARRY S TRUMAN A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes oppo... HARRY S TRUMAN Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registerin... HARRY S TRUMAN Children and dogs are as necessary to the welfare of the country as Wall Street and the railroads. HARRY S TRUMAN You can't get rich in politics unless you're a crook. HARRY S TRUMAN The White House is the finest prison in the world. HARRY S TRUMAN I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious futur... HARRY S TRUMAN To hell with them. When history is written they will be the sons of bitches - not I. HARRY S TRUMAN You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little pl... HARRY S TRUMAN The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remai... HARRY S TRUMAN Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark. Professionals built the Tita... HARRY S TRUMAN Do you know why they call it 'PMS'? Because 'Mad Cow Disease' was already taken. HARRY S TRUMAN Everyone has a photographic memory. Some don't have film. HARRY S TRUMAN Borrow money from a pessimist - they don't expect it back HARRY S TRUMAN There Are Three Kinds of People - Those Who Can Count and Those Who Can't HARRY S TRUMAN I used to think I was indecisive, but now I'm not so sure HARRY S TRUMAN The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will r... HARRY S TRUMAN Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both si... HARRY S TRUMAN The atom bomb was no ''great decision.'' It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of rig... HARRY S TRUMAN Our conference in 1945 did much more than draft an international agreement among 50 nations. [We] se... HARRY S TRUMAN Don't hate yourself in the morning. Sleep till noon. HARRY S TRUMAN I'm not insensitive, I just don't care. HARRY S TRUMAN I have read your lousy review of Margaret's concert. I've come to the conclusion that you are an eig... HARRY S TRUMAN A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it. HARRY S TRUMAN The 'C' students run the world. HARRY S TRUMAN When a leader is in the Democratic party he's a boss; when he's in the Republican party he's a leade... HARRY S TRUMAN My favorite animal is the mule. He has more horse sense than a horse. He knows when to stop eating -... HARRY S TRUMAN People are very much wrought up about the Communist bugaboo HARRY S TRUMAN I have never met you but if I do, you'll need a new nose, a lot of beefsteak for black eyes, and a s... HARRY S TRUMAN Whenever I make a bum decision, I go out and make another one HARRY S TRUMAN Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same tim... HARRY S TRUMAN Always be sincere, even if you don't mean it. HARRY S TRUMAN That precedent should continue-not by a Constitutional amendment but by custom based on the honor of... HARRY S TRUMAN Start slow and taper off. HARRY S TRUMAN America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination, and unbeatable determin... HARRY S TRUMAN I've said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representati... HARRY S TRUMAN If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog HARRY S TRUMAN Never kick a fresh turd on a hot day. HARRY S TRUMAN All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it HARRY S TRUMAN Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don't ever a... HARRY S TRUMAN If I want to be great I have to win the victory over myself... self-discipline. HARRY S TRUMAN I learned that a great leader is a man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't... HARRY S TRUMAN I don't want it torn down. I think it's the greatest monstrosity in America. HARRY S TRUMAN If I hadn't been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player in a ... HARRY S TRUMAN