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So I analyzed that and decided I didn't want to be the president during a depression greater than the Great Depression, or the beginning of a depression greater than the Great Depression.

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And I, unfortunately, have been to too many disasters as president.

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During the Reagan Administration, Bob Dole was present at a ceremony that included each living ex-president. Looking at a tableau of Ford, Carter and Nixon, Dole said, 'There they are: Hear No Evil, See No Evil and Evil.'

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I'm comfortable with how I lived my life as the president.

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I'd like to be a president [known] as somebody who liberated 50 million people and helped achieve peace.

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Oh, if only I could be President and Congress, too, just for ten minutes.

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I decided what I wanted to do, not to make me look good, but to make me feel comfortable. Other presidents do it other ways.

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I'm just beginning to live the next chapter of my life. In other words, politics - being governor and president - is not the end of my life. It's a chapter.

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A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it. Dealing with Congress is a matter of give and take. The president doesn't get everything he wants, the Congress doesn't get everything they want. But we're finding good common ground.

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I'm forever a former president and I understand that, but at this point in my post-presidency, I don't want to be involved with politics.

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We spend less time with each other now than we did during the presidency. When you're president, you're usually out and back in the same day - at least I was. I just came from a trip to the Middle East last week, where I was gone for five nights, and when I left, Laura [Bush] was out of town.

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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.

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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.

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The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.

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The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.

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I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States

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I'm the only president who really put it out in the State of the Union and was very specific about how I felt we ought to do it.

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I never dreamed about being President, I wanted to be Willie Mays.

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We hope that diplomacy works before you ever use force. The hardest decision a president makes is ever to use force.

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To announce there must be no criticism of the president or that we are to stand with the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.

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