Presidents are always also storytellers, purveyors of useful national mythologies. And surprisingly enough, Richard Nixon, this awkward man who didn't even really… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
I've done it 30 years. I don't know what there is to gain by doing it 40. But I think there is… — Don Novello Copy Share Image
The unknown has undone many a president, and no matter the popularity of an Oval Office occupant, any and all presidents are… — Chuck Todd Copy Share Image
Memo to future presidents: Never stake your entire survival on the painful passing of a bad bill. Never take the country down… — Peggy Noonan Copy Share Image
Richard Nixon had a kind of Walter Mitty fantasy life. He was a man with a grandiose thoughts: dreams of not simply… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
“I pray heaven,” Adams wrote, “to bestow the best of blessings on this house, and all that shall hereafter inhabit it. May… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
Surveillance changes history. We know this through examples of corrupt presidents like Nixon. — Mikko Hypponen Copy Share Image
I believe that Bill Clinton will be remembered as one of our nation's great Presidents, and Senator Clinton as one of our… — Joe Andrew Copy Share Image
Futurism is another American myth: whether Kennedy, Johnson, Reagan or Obama, American presidents all come into office with a new program, and… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
“[David] Maraniss sees [Barack] Obama as a man with "a moviegoer's or writer's sensibility, where he is both participating and observing himself… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
In every era going back to Lincoln with Frederick Douglass, presidents talk to those that were leading at that time. — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
I'm actually writing history. It isn't what you'd call big history. I don't write about presidents and generals... I write about the… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
“Certainly there were obvious differences in policies between the various leaders, and an America run by a Bush, an Obama or a… — James Morcan Copy Share Image
In fact, it was the women in our house who were in the saddle. If men are the gods, women are not… — Pedro Almodovar Copy Share Image
The presidency awed me, but presidents do not. Perhaps I have always expected too much of them, but I believe that when… — Helen Thomas Copy Share Image
“After Katrina, I decided it's better to have a President who's competent rather than one who's beer-worthy. Doonsebury” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Trump’s America is not America: not today’s or tomorrow’s, but yesterday’s. Trump’s America is brutal, perverse, regressive, insular and afraid. There is… — Charles M. Blow Copy Share Image
The deficit only became a big problem in the Reagan-Bush years. For 12 years, Republican presidents talked about balancing the budget, but… — Dick Gephardt Copy Share Image
All of the American presidents, certainly all of the notable ones, have been pretty original. — Michael J. Knowles Copy Share Image
As someone who has more than a passing acquaintance with most of the 20th century presidents, I have often thought that their… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
Being an Arab leader has its rewards: the suite at the Waldorf-Astoria during the United Nations General Assembly, travel in your own… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
We all learn submission because we all have 'bosses', whether we're presidents of companies or not. The easiest place to learn it… — Richard Foster Copy Share Image
