Buried in this article in the NY Times, Bush 'Compassion' Agenda: A Liability in '04?, is this nice little quote from Joshua B. Bolten, White House budget director and formerly Mr. Bush's chief domestic policy adviser.
"Even the president is not omnipotent," Mr. Bolten said of the House opposition to the AmeriCorps money. "Would that he were. He often says that life would be a lot easier if it were a dictatorship. But it's not, and he's glad it's a democracy."
Often?
[via Tom Tomorrow]
I can't believe that quote is in there. BUT IT IS.
Of course, the last sentence ("Dick Cheney's pissed about it, though, and he says he's got a plan...") was omitted.