Announcements Quote by Andrew Johnson

The assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. made me very, very sad, and I morned and I cried like many of our citizens did.…

— John Lewis

I have an extremely difficult time wrapping my head around such a tragic event as the Elementary school massacre in Connecticut and unbelievable sadness…

— Pamela Moore

I discovered that Robert Todd Lincoln was there for each of the first three assassinations. I wanted to write about the Lincoln Memorial, so…

— Sarah Vowell

One of the things I learned as president is that your life is just not going to unfold the way you want it to.…

— George W. Bush

I fully understood what I was doing when I shot the president. I realized that I was sacrificing my life. I am willing to…

— Leon Czolgosz

I'm overwhelmed by the pain in the world; I'm affected by the news very much, and adding that to my work was becoming a…

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

There is a great overlap of tragedy that played out through the generations of the Lincolns. That, coupled with the idea that many people…

— Michael Beschloss

These kinds of tragedies [like shooting in Fort Lauderdale] have happened too often during the eight years that I've been president. The pain, the…

— Barack Obama

Clearly something had gone wrong, badly, only I wasn't quite sure what—apart from knowing that I was responsible somehow, in the generalized miasma of…

— Donna Tartt

During the course of my presidency, it feels as if a couple times a year, I end up having to speak to the country…

— Barack Obama

For me, it is a deep personal tragedy. I know that the world shares the sorrow that Mrs. Kennedy and her family bear. I…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Take events logically one by one; ask yourself what is your dharma pertaining to a given event; and do it; and move on to…

— T Joseph Benziger