"I can be President of the United States, or I can control Alice. I cannot possibly do both."
— Control

January 1, 1970

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Response when a dignitary asked if he could better control his daughter, as quoted in Hail to the Chiefs : My Life and Times with Six Presidents (1970) by Ruth Shick Montgomery, and Time magazine (3 March 1980).