You want to know what I believe in? I believe in getting trough the day. I believe in knowing your station. I believe in living somewhere quiet.

(...)

Look, my job isn't to make everything beautiful. My job isn't to make living life a good time. My job is to keep the majority of this country alive. That´s it.

If fifty-one percent eat a meal tomorrow and forty-nine percent don't, I've done my job. This is the fucking absolute limit of what can be done. Anyone who says otherwise is a con artist. My job is just to keep things the way they are. Everyone stays the same.

I do the job. I keep the money coming. I provide the television and a few spare dollars and space for a fuck or two. You might not like that. You migth not think that´s the way a president should behave.

But, you know... that's fuckin' tough.

O Presidente dos Estados Unidos, em entrevista a Spider Jerusalem; Transmetropolitan21, de Warren Ellis, 05.99 (RSF)