I sit here all day trying to persuade people to do the things they ought to have sense enough to do without my persuading them … that's all the powers of the President amount to.


Quoted by Richard Neustadt in Presidential Power: The Politics of Leadership (1964)

Harry S. Truman Quotes

I sit here all day trying to persuade people to do the things they ought to have sense enough to do without my persuading them … that's all the...

I sit here all day trying to persuade people to do the things they ought to have sense enough to do without my persuading them … that's all the...

I sit here all day trying to persuade people to do the things they ought to have sense enough to do without my persuading them … that's all the...

I sit here all day trying to persuade people to do the things they ought to have sense enough to do without my persuading them … that's all the...