Action Quote by Jill Lepore

If you do a serious presidential bio, you want to supply the reader with maximum material because otherwise you're offending the reader. A president…

— Amity Shlaes

When they say [Donald Trump] is not "presidential": I asked myself what does it mean to be "presidential"? You wear a suit; you talk…

— Louis Farrakhan

Even though Lyndon Johnson's presidency was in many ways scarred forever by the war in Vietnam, and destroyed in a lot of ways, he…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

Once you choose to run for president of the United States and succeed, your earlier life, your biography, is a major part of American…

— David Garrow

Few American presidents are held in higher esteem than Thomas Jefferson. Though historians have scrutinized every phase of his long public career and found…

— Robert Dallek

Historians sometimes view presidents very differently from the way the public did at the time. Sometimes they don't.

— Michael Beschloss

When you see how the President makes political or policy decisions, you see who he is. The essence of the Presidency is decision-making.

— Bob Woodward

American presidents are moral leaders and role models as much as they're political leaders and heads of state - they are meant to model…

— Jamelle Bouie

The truth is that I have never created a president to push a political point of view. I am often looking to create aspirational…

— Rod Lurie

Other presidents behind the scenes mutter epithets about the media. Donald Trump calls us the lowest form of human life to our face. Other…

— Ruth Marcus

The Presidency is not merely an administrative office. Thats the least of it. It is more than an engineering job, efficient or inefficient. It…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

From 4 to 6 percent of the presidential office is not in administration but in morals, politics, and spiritual leadership . He has to…

— William Allen White