President Obama's achievements and failures must be evaluated by comparison to those chief executives who have come before him and not be measured against the prophetically moral voice of Martin Luther King Jr. — David Garrow Copy Share Image
The Barack who was so successful in Illinois in a Republican-controlled legislative situation for most of his time and who was a very outspoken progressive voice, that's not the man who we ended up having as president. — David Garrow Copy Share Image
President Obama's achievements and failures must be evaluated by comparison to those chief executives who have come before him and not be measured against… — David Garrow Copy Share Image
Healthcare in the U.S. remains a dire mess, and the Obama presidency, unfortunately, didn't really address that. — David Garrow Copy Share Image
I think American life would be better without Twitter, and I think we'd have a better country if the president was not on Twitter.… — David Garrow Copy Share Image
One of the great challenges of being a modern historian is interviewing multiple people who were all there for something, some event. No one's… — David Garrow Copy Share Image
Politically or ideologically oriented evaluations of Chief Justice Rehnquist should not overlook what a successful and popular chief justice he was within the Court… — David Garrow Copy Share Image
I have very purposely never signed up with commercial lecture agencies as most, I think, prominent historical authors do because, to me, that's a… — David Garrow Copy Share Image
Prior to Roe , ... whether one could obtain a legal abortion in the face of an unwanted pregnancy was a crap shoot. For… — David Garrow Copy Share Image
Dr. King, if he were alive today, probably would simply be a minister, a pastor. His initial intent was, indeed, just to be a… — David Garrow Copy Share Image
With Barack, there's an emotional need to succeed, to win, to obtain victory. He always believes that he's the smartest person in the room. — David Garrow Copy Share Image
The Barack who was so successful in Illinois in a Republican-controlled legislative situation for most of his time and who was a very outspoken… — David Garrow Copy Share Image
'Dreams from My Father' was not a memoir or an autobiography; it was instead, in multitudinous ways, without any question a work of historical… — David Garrow Copy Share Image
