I'm the president of the United States. I'm not the emperor of the United States.

- Barack Obama

Name me an emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball.

- Charles V

Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.

- Jean de La Fontaine

I've never thought of it consciously... I say exactly what I think, and very often it's totally politically incorrect. I get, always, chastised for it. So it's not shtick. But I think I'm the one who says, 'The emperor has no clothes.'

- Joan Rivers

I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff-box from an emperor.

- Lord Byron

At times, Mario Cuomo seemed to have the humility of a Jesuit and the goals of an emperor.

- Mike Barnicle

The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.

- Saint Ambrose

No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.

- Tacitus

It becomes an emperor to die standing.

- Titus Flavius Vespasian

The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream.

- Wallace Stevens

The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor.

- Willa Cather