Every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells, and when I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing. The mischief of it is that when they swell, they do not swell enough to burst.
His [the President's] office is anything he has the sagacity and force to make it.
The presidential office is not a rosewater affair. This is an office in which a man must put on his war paint.