Cabinets Quote by Gore Vidal

Both my parents' brothers are into active politics and so was my grandfather.

— Mimi Chakraborty

My dad was a [Theodor] Roosevelt Democrat.

— Bill Ayers

My father was a politician. My grandfather was a politician too, maybe it's an innate idea of representing people that we have in our…

— Eniola Aluko

My dad came out of the Roosevelt era and the Depression. One person and one party made a difference in his life. That's what…

— Richard M. Daley

My dad, who really had so much foresight, said that we were living at a time when we needed more representation and we didn't…

— Humza Yousaf

I come from a working-class family. They're the people I know and the people I love, I guess. I do not write about them…

— Per Petterson

My uncles, grandfather and great grandfather have all been active in politics at some point or the other. So probably I am only taking…

— Mimi Chakraborty

I am political. But not politically active. I'm not my dad. I'll never write polemic, as he did.

— Kate Thompson

“For better than thirty years, as a working historian, I have written on leaders I knew, such as Lyndon Johnson, and interviewed intimates of…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

As more time passes, people see my father for what he is - one of the last of a generation who went into government…

— Dorothy Bush Koch

My grandfather was a popular senator, known as an advocate for fiscal responsibility, including the line-item veto for the president.

— Dorothy Bush Koch

My father always wanted me to be president of the United States, and his fallback position was that I not become a ward of…

— Kevin Sessums