[On hearing that President Coolidge was dead:] How can you…

How could they tell? (on being told that Calvin Coolidge was dead)

— Dorothy Parker

I think the Bushes would have liked President Coolidge, though I often wonder what nickname 43 would pick for 30. President Bush has great…

— Amity Shlaes

“No one knew how old she was, but she vaguely remembered waving to President Coolidge. She still had all of her marbles, though every…

— Ellen Klages

“Upon hearing that Coolidge was dead, the writer Dorothy Parker cracked, “How can you tell?”

— Brady Carlson

President Coolidge said, 'I don't want the Government to go into business.' Well, if I was Mr. Coolidge I wouldn't worry over that. The…

— Will Rogers

When I was a kid, hearing something from the president was like hearing something from God. Now I hear the president and think, What…

— Fred Willard

There is something about hearing your president affirm your humanity that you don't know what effect it has until you hear it.

— Andrew Sullivan

I look forward to their convention and look forward to hearing the President talk about what he will do for the next four years.…

— Anonymous

On being told of the death of former President Calvin Coolidge: How could they tell?

— Dorothy Parker

He's got to do better than the shoddy piecing together of flimsy evidence that contradicts the briefings we have received by various agencies, ..…

— Russ Feingold

Hoover, if elected, will do one thing that is almost incomprehensible to the human mind: he will make a great man out of Coolidge.

— Clarence Darrow

“The business of America is business,’ said Calvin Coolidge”

— Hugh Brogan

Coolidge expressed his "sympathy with the deep and intense longing which finds such fine expression in the Jewish National Homeland in Palestine."

— Calvin Coolidge

Coolidge's preference for experience over ideas was a deeply rooted trait.

— David Greenberg

The first time I ever came to Washington was to visit Calvin Coolidge in the White House with my father.

— David Dellinger