Know Quote by H. W. Brands Download Open image “When a president doesn't know the policy, it doesn't make for a very effective leader.” — H. W. Brands ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Know Leader Make Policy President
The next president needs to know foreign policy and not learn it on the job. — Sam Brownback Copy Share Image
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Presidents come and go, and even parties come to and away from power. But the main policy tack does not change. — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
It's not good enough to just know what to say about the policy; it's really important to take the extra step to learn the… — Dana Perino Copy Share Image
We do policy but we can only do policy an effective manner when we keep in front of us the human faces behind the… — Raphael Warnock Copy Share Image
White House staff are meant to coordinate and set policy, not carry it out. — Richard N. Haass Copy Share Image
I hear this all the time: 'Obama's policies aren't working.' He hasn't been allowed to put his policies into place. — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Presidents don't have power. Their job is to draw attention away from it. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it. — Harry S Truman Copy Share Image
Who knows what it is, but he [Donald Trump] is incapable of having a consistent thought or policy. — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
Presidential leadership is best evaluated not on the basis of one's agreement with the policies, but on their effectiveness in using their powers to… — James M Strock Copy Share Image
I certainly don't think that the heirs of the American Revolution were a particularly noble class. — H. W. Brands Copy Share Image
The Republican Party has moved substantially to the right of where Reagan was. — H. W. Brands Copy Share Image
Reagan gave essentially the same speech from the beginning to the end of his political career, which was always, 'The American people are great,… — H. W. Brands Copy Share Image
Presidents are evaluated not by what they did by the stroke of their own pen; it's what they persuade Congress to do. — H. W. Brands Copy Share Image
In the business arena, the standard rules of morality don't apply. What we're really looking for is efficiency. It doesn't do anyone any good… — H. W. Brands Copy Share Image
There is a certain kind of sobering, civilizing effect that being president imposes on people. There is a certain kind of dignity with which… — H. W. Brands Copy Share Image
The Founders were anything but demigods to themselves and their contemporaries, who recognized full well that the experiment in self-government had only begun. — H. W. Brands Copy Share Image
The American political system is based on the president taking the initiative and Congress responding. With President Trump, it's been the opposite. — H. W. Brands Copy Share Image
The president was not the most important political player in the 19th century. Besides Jefferson at the beginning, Andrew Jackson and Abraham Lincoln, the… — H. W. Brands Copy Share Image
The shelf life of a seventh-year State of the Union address is about five minutes. Presidents can propose stuff. They're probably not likely to… — H. W. Brands Copy Share Image
When you look at the development of the American presidency, you see that the presidents who have had the greatest impact are the ones… — H. W. Brands Copy Share Image
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