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Presidents Quotes by Robert Dallek
- Presidents by six years have been there long enough for the media and the country to see their flaws.
- The greatest presidents have been those who demonstrated astute judgment in times of crisis - often despite the advice they were getting.
- True, most Americans give lip service to the proposition that even the most exalted among us have their flaws, but we are eager to believe…
- At the start of first terms, presidents invariably have a measure of goodwill.
- Richard Nixon had a kind of Walter Mitty fantasy life. He was a man with a grandiose thoughts: dreams of not simply being president but…
- Presidents need to be critically studied and analyzed.
- Few American presidents are held in higher esteem than Thomas Jefferson. Though historians have scrutinized every phase of his long public career and found him…
- The Cold War is over. The kind of authority that the presidents asserted during the Cold War has now been diminished.
- Every year since 1990, the Gallup poll has asked Americans to assess all the presidents since John F. Kennedy. And every year, Kennedy comes out…
- As someone who has more than a passing acquaintance with most of the 20th century presidents, I have often thought that their accomplishments have little…
More Presidents Quotes
- Presidents do not go off on leave without telling the country. — Chinua Achebe
- I have walked into the palaces of kings and queens and into the houses of presidents. And much more. But I could… — Josephine Baker
- Letter writing was clearly important to Reagan. Even as president he kept dashing off letters to friends, pen pals, media people, statesmen,… — Russell Baker
- Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic. — Henry Adams
- Presidents have the right to nominate their own cabinet secretaries. But their nominees don't have a right to confirmation. Senators have a… — Gary Bauer
- One of the embarrassing problems for the early nineteenth-century champions of the Christian faith was that not one of the first six… — Mortimer Adler
- If presidents can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country. — Mel Brooks
- What if Barack Obama established a Presidential Advisory Committee that would meet once every couple of months, bringing together the former presidents… — Tony Campolo
- Because of the increase in life longevity, America can now assume that at any given time three, and perhaps four, former presidents… — Tony Campolo
- I feel that my role as a former president is probably superior to that of other presidents. Primarily because of the activism… — Jimmy Carter
- I've worked for four presidents and watched two others up close, and I know that there's no such thing as a routine… — Dick Cheney
- You got to have people at the top who respond to and are selected by presidents. — Dick Cheney