Historians Quote by Michael Beschloss

Presidents always - not always, but often have bad conversations with counterparts. They just don't go out and embarrass their counterpart by talking about…

— James Franklin Jeffrey

I didn't realize the president was such an historian.

— Mark Shields

I think all presidents should take the long view of history.

— George W. Bush

I think different presidents have different ways of governing. We just have to respect that.

— Bill Cassidy

All modern U.S. presidents are perforce politicians, prisoners of their past pronouncements, their party, their constituency, and their colleagues.

— Tony Judt

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

Presidents are not kings.

— Ketanji Brown Jackson

Presidents don't have power. Their job is to draw attention away from it.

— Douglas Adams

Although this should not be so, historians reconsider presidencies based on how the presidents conduct themselves after leaving office.

— H. W. Brands

As someone who has more than a passing acquaintance with most of the 20th century presidents, I have often thought that their accomplishments have…

— Robert Dallek

“Voters tend to forget that presidents are, first and foremost, people. If they are unbalanced, nasty, and hypocritical, that will be reflected in their…

— Ronald Kessler

Presidential biography is, by its nature, out of scale; no character is bigger, no action greater, than the person and the doings of the…

— Jill Lepore