Character Quote by Henry Paulson

A political candidacy built around hope and change and compromise would eventually become a presidency of crisis and confrontation.

— Barack Obama

Just as crises can provide a test of anyone's character, they do so especially with presidents.

— George T. Conway III

I don't know what would happen in a Trump administration, as far as how he would behave.

— Rashid Khalidi

I don`t know how it would have gone, but I do know this - Mitt Romney was looking at running and the reason he…

— Steve Kornacki

Well, just that there would be somebody in the office and the voters - it was more or less an understanding in the entire…

— Stephen Breyer

The politicization of the presidency would pose a real threat to the institution and its function.

— Reuven Rivlin

The President [Barack Obama], I think if you look at it from his shoes, you know, was facing a very difficult situation where he…

— Ron Suskind

There is no more divisive character in modern politics than Steve Bannon, as he symbolizes the devil incarnate for the heaving, emotional left.

— Lisa Kennedy Montgomery

Crisis alone is not enough. There must also be a basis, though it need be neither rational nor ultimately correct, for faith in the…

— Thomas Kuhn

The financial crisis happened because no-one could actually say out loud how bad things were.

— Mark Ravenhill

I do think Donald Trump would be a catastrophic turn in American history.

— George Packer

It is difficult to predict the outcome of any Presidency, but with Donald Trump the worst-case scenarios seem particularly plausible, because he is so…

— Kelefa Sanneh