[The President is] the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think.
Source: In American Quotations, by Gorton Carruth, 1988.
-- James A Garfield, (Nov 19 1831-1881), US president, lay preacher; He was the U.S.'s 20th president, but was shot in a railway station after only four months in office; died 80 days later.