Harry S. Truman Quote

They couldn't include me in it because I was the President, and I can be elected as often as I want to be. I'm going to run again when I'm ninety. I've announced that a time or two, and you know, some damn fool looked the situation over and said, "When you're ninety, it's an off year," so I can't even run then. I didn't know I was going to stir up all that trouble...


On the 22nd Amendment limiting a president to two terms, in a lecture at Columbia University (28 April 1959)


They couldn't include me in it because I was the President, and I can be elected as often as I want to be. I'm going to run again when I'm ninety....

They couldn't include me in it because I was the President, and I can be elected as often as I want to be. I'm going to run again when I'm ninety....

They couldn't include me in it because I was the President, and I can be elected as often as I want to be. I'm going to run again when I'm ninety....

They couldn't include me in it because I was the President, and I can be elected as often as I want to be. I'm going to run again when I'm ninety....