Four Quote by Paul Ryan

The story that Barack Obama does tell, forever shifting blame to the last administration, is getting old. The man assumed office almost four years…

— Paul Ryan

You have reckoned that history ought to judge the past and to instruct the contemporary world as to the future. The present attempt does…

— Leopold von Ranke

I know that given great responsibility men sometimes change, but Mr. Nixon's Presidency would worry me.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Presidents don't have the benefit of hindsight. You have to make difficult decisions based on the information that's before you at that moment.

— Marco Rubio

Some stories seem to lend themselves to telling right away. 'All The President's Men' was done, what, four or five years after the event?…

— Barry Levinson

Presidents grow up in the White House. The times shape the man.

— Thomas Friedman

“Long habit had accustomed the American people to the notion of a party in power, and of a President as its creature and organ,…

— James Russell Lowell

No one who has not had the responsibility can really understand what it is like to be President, not even his closest aides or…

— Harry S. Truman

The time is not come for impartial history. If the truth were told just now, it would not be credited.

— Robert E. Lee

I do not think that a man's rise to power is necessarily the climax of his life or that his loss of office should…

— Isaac Deutscher

Nothing is more natural to men in office, than to look with peculiar deference towards that authority to which they owe their official existence.

— Alexander Hamilton

In their day, no man worthy of the presidency would ever stoop to campaigning for it. George Washington was asked to serve. Decades later,…

— John Dickerson