Failure Quote by Daniel Kahneman

“Certainly, the new day was at hand when President Harding took office. The amazing disparity between the job and the man has the right…

— Hugh Brogan

Wilson thought in terms of the whole world; Harding was for America first. And, finally, whereas Wilson wanted America to exert itself nobly, Harding…

— Frederick Lewis Allen

I just want to point out that Warren Harding, The Times assailed his nomination for president.And we can see how effective that was.

— Dalia Mogahed

“FOR WARREN G. HARDING, the summer of 1927 was not a good one, which was perhaps a little surprising since he had been dead…

— Bill Bryson

“Sound familiar? Rutherford B. Hayes was someone who thought that attracting opposition from nearly every direction meant that he was right. James A. Garfield,…

— Richard White

“The Adams presidency, in fact, might be the classic example of the historical truism that inherited circumstances define the parameters within which presidential leadership…

— Joseph J. Ellis

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

— David Greenberg

“But that such an administration could be elected in the first place, headed by a man whose only qualifications to be President of the…

— Thomas Sowell

Ronald Reagans vision of smaller government, less taxes, and a strong national defense has led to a prosperous America. As president, he rebuilt our…

— David Vitter

Herbert Hoover was a man of genuine, fine character, but he lacked practical political sense. And he couldn't bend and shift and change with…

— Robert Dallek

I think that is also something he [Barack Obama], in the beginning of his presidency, he couldn't really explore and couldn't show. He had…

— Jordan Peele

It's hard to look inside a person to answer a question about why anybody wants to be president. I suppose a combination of ambition,…

— Hamilton Jordan