Candidates Quote by Duff Green

Had Calhoun been advised by me, he would have been the most popular man in the United States.

— Duff Green

“Despite a legacy consisting of enough violence and death for twenty men, Jackson admitted to having two regrets on his deathbed: “I didn’t shoot…

— Daniel O'Brien

“Secretary of State John Quincy Adams, who had spent much of his youth in Europe, expressed surprise and shock when John C. Calhoun, a…

— David Brion Davis

I read the book with interest, but when Jackson was a candidate in 1828 for the Presidency, I opposed him and voted for Adams.…

— Ezra Cornell

For the Negro, Andrew Johnson did less than nothing when once he realized that the chief beneficiary of labor and economic reform in the…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

“Their toil had made Jackson’s fortune and raised him to the prominence that won him election as the head of Tennessee’s militia. He now…

— Edward E. Baptist

I think George Mitchell was the right guy for the right time, and many people will note his spectacular foreign policy accomplishments, both in…

— Barbara Mikulski

LBJ held up Detroit as a model of what the Great Society could accomplish. He was right.

— Mark Steyn

“Jackson was a transformative president in part because he had a transcendent personality; other presidents who followed him were not transformative, and served unremarkably.”

— Jon Meacham

“It’s not that Jackson had a “dark side,” as his apologists rationalize and which all human beings have, but rather that Jackson was the…

— Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

I feel much alarmed at the prospect of seeing General Jackson President. He is the most unfit man I know for such a place.

— Thomas Jefferson

I think George Mitchell was good for Maryland in the sense that he helped me get elected. It doesn't get any better than that…

— Barbara Mikulski