Quote: If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog. [Harry Truman]
Quote: If I want to be great I have to win the victory over myself... self-discipline. [Harry Truman]
Quote: Whenever you have efficient government, you have a dictatorship. [Harry Truman]
Quote: Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past. [Harry Truman]
Quote: I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work. [Harry Truman]
Quote: A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants. [Harry Truman]
Quote: A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader. [Harry Truman]
Quote: A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties. [Harry Truman]
Quote: A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years. [Harry Truman]
Quote: A President cannot always be popular. [Harry Truman]
Quote: A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it. [Harry Truman]
Quote: All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway. [Harry Truman]
Quote: Always be sincere, even if you don't mean it. [Harry Truman]
Quote: America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand. [Harry Truman]
Quote: Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here. [Harry Truman]
Quote: Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.
Harry S. Truman [Harry Truman]
Quote: Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don't ever apologize for anything. [Harry Truman]
Quote: Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice. [Harry Truman]
Quote: I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it - not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization. [Harry Truman]
Quote: I have no desire to crow over anybody or to see anybody eating crow, figuratively or otherwise. We should all get together and make a country in which everybody can eat turkey whenever he pleases. [Harry Truman]
Quote: I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell. [Harry Truman]
Quote: I remember when I first came to Washington. For the first six months you wonder how the hell you ever got here. For the next six months you wonder how the hell the rest of them ever got here. [Harry Truman]
Quote: I've said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America! [Harry Truman]
Quote: If I hadn't been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player in a bawdy house. [Harry Truman]
Quote: If I'd known how much packing I'd have to do, I'd have run again. [Harry Truman]