Books Quote by Paul Mathews

Every President reconstructs the Presidency to meet his own psychological needs.

— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr

“These times, indeed all times, demand national political leaders who know not only our history but the history of the world and its nations…

— Harold G. Moore

There's always an element of self delusion among people who believe they ought to be President. There's an underestimation of your opponent and an…

— Jimmy Carter

I've written a book that hopefully will give people a sense of what [presidency] was like. I hope my friends read it and say,…

— George W. Bush

“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

“When a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men of sense; he faces a mob of men whose chief…

— H.L. Mencken

“James Glass, a political scientist at the University of Maryland who has studied the delusions of schizophrenia, writes, “Delusion provides a certain, often unbreakable…

— Sylvia Nasar

“Truth and justice are commonly found in the personality of the paranoid delusional”

— Anonymous

A fanatic, either, religious or political, is the subject of strong delusions.

— Richard Whately

I have made it a habit not to speculate over the psychological state of our elected leaders.

— Wladyslaw Bartoszewski

“No one is as delusional as the people who think they are doing the thinking.”

— Abhaidev

“Delusion is what your society wants you to believe in, reality is what you see from your heart!”

— Fahad Basheer