The Presidency is not merely an administrative office. That’s the least of it. It is more than an engineering job, efficient or inefficient. It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership. All our great Presidents were leaders of thought at times when certain historic ideas in the life of the nation had to be clarified.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882–1945) American lawyer, politician, statesman, US President (1933–1945)

Interview (1932-09-11), New York Times Magazine
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