But he listened.

Lincoln had risen and stood in front of the fire, his shoulders leaning on the mantelpiece, and his head against the lower part of the picture of George Washington.
"First," he said, "I'm a minority President, elected by a minority vote of the people of the United States.

I wouldn't have got in if the Democrats hadn't been split.

I haven't a majority in the Senate.

Yet I've got to decide for the nation and make the nation follow me.