Advantage Quote by Doris Kearns Goodwin

“It is a great advantage to a President, and a major source of safety to the country, for him to know that he is…

— Calvin Coolidge

“While you and I are allowed the luxury of our pain, president isn't. A president must take into account how his citizens feel and…

— George Friedman

“The President was trapped – and with nearly every president, it had come about from his own words. Presidential promises and statements… The people…

— Tom Clancy

“There is usually a moment in the life of a new president when he begins to see himself not as an aspirant desperate to…

— Jon Meacham

“A treacherous President stood in the way; and it can be easily seen how reluctant good men might be to admit an apostasy which…

— Frederick Douglass

“Reagan was read portions of his own diary, and he said something I'll never forget: "It's like I wasn't president at all". Very sad.…

— Bob Woodward

“Presidents could be fickle and arbitrary. Each new one with wildly different visions and priorities. And when all was said and done, they were…

— Douglas E. Richards

“The press of visitors, a New York Times reporter observed, never seemed “to try the President’s strength or impair his good temper.” At one…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“Now, for the first time, the President began to look genuinely powerful, even dangerous. This was a classic political coalition: it had worked in…

— Bruce Sterling

“virtually the entire senior staff and cabinet of the Trump presidency, past and present, had traveled through the stages of adventure, challenge, frustration, battle,…

— Michael Wolff

“There is not in the world a more ignoble character than the mere money-getting American, insensitive to every duty, regardless of every principle, bent…

— Timothy Egan

“This, then, is a story of Lincoln’s political genius revealed through his extraordinary array of personal qualities that enabled him to form friendships with…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin