Audience Quote by Doris Kearns Goodwin

Although this should not be so, historians reconsider presidencies based on how the presidents conduct themselves after leaving office.

— H. W. Brands

But presidents matter. That's one of the biggest lessons I learned being in the White House.

— Sidney Blumenthal

We live in a different media age, a different realm if you will. And whoever is going to aspire to the presidency is going…

— Michael Avenatti

Sometimes it's important to watch what the president does rather than what he says.

— John McCain

Historians sometimes view presidents very differently from the way the public did at the time. Sometimes they don't.

— Michael Beschloss

The race for the White House is normally an event suffused with drama, sucking eyeballs to the page all over the globe.

— Matt Taibbi

Every president, as he nears the end of his final term in office, thinks about his place in history.

— Kathleen Troia McFarland

The presidency is more than a popularity contest.

— Al Gore

Presidential legacies are valuable things, too valuable to be left up to historians.

— Thomas Frank

Presidents grow up in the White House. The times shape the man.

— Thomas Friedman

It must be remembered that the Bush White House has a separate talent for character assassination that must not be confused with a talent…

— Richard Dreyfuss

I think all presidents should take the long view of history.

— George W. Bush