Age Quote by Jared Sparks

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

“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

But the admiration for Jackson was by no means confined to his own soldiers and to his own section.

— Anonymous

“But as a war time president James Madison did not display dynamic leadership. Andrew Jackson acknowledged Madison " a great civilian," but declared "…

— Andrew Jackson

Andrew Jackson was the first president to claim that the desires of the public overrode Congress's constitutional prerogatives. Virtually every president since Jackson has…

— Ron Fournier

“In truth, there will never be enough power in the presidency for an incumbent to make good on a purely constructive leadership project, and…

— Stephen Skowronek

Our presidency is a cut above, we all want the president to be the absolutely finest person and best person that we could elect,…

— Rush Limbaugh

Perhaps the most incapable Executive that ever filled the presidential chair...it would be difficult to imagine a man less fit to guide the state…

— Theodore Roosevelt

The most upsetting part of the new administration is discovering that the person who won the election and became the president of the United…

— Maxine Waters

Presidents are not kings.

— Ketanji Brown Jackson

After the 1960s and '70s, there were real doubts about whether a mortal man could handle the country's highest office. It had destroyed Johnson,…

— Nancy Gibbs