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Well, it seems to me Lincoln, I suppose, is kind of a model of a particular sort of presidency, a presidency that first of…

— David Herbert Donald

Part of the elements of the electoral college is creation. Certainly it was created in slave states and them wanting to balance power, but…

— Brandon Victor Dixon

My thinking is Lincolnian rather than Jeffersonian, Teddy Rooseveltian rather than Franklin D. Rooseveltian.

— Jacob K. Javits

“Over the course of his career, Abraham Lincoln had a staggering record of lost elections and public-office failures. For the ungainly lawyer from Illinois,…

— Jeff Olson

“any time I feel like quitting, I just look at a framed poster I have hanging in our office: • He failed in business in…

— Mona Lisa Harding

The Electoral College has been with us since the first days of America.

— Rush Limbaugh

Abraham Lincoln and Millard Fillmore had the same title. They were both presidents of the United States, but their tenure in office and their…

— Barack Obama

“It is interesting to note that under our original Constitution the highest office for which citizens could vote was their member of the House…

— Neal Boortz

Lincoln and Clinton had a lot in common in the way they were elected: In both cases, they were dark horses. In both cases,…

— Dick Morris

Americans have not had a presidential choice since 1932. Roosevelt was our man; every president since Roosevelt has been our man.

— Harold Wallace Rosenthal

You have had presidential candidates over the last 30 years who would have had a very hard time getting nominated under the old system.…

— Michael Beschloss

Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Roosevelt faced adversities that, in their times, seemed impregnable. Great presidents overcome great odds.

— Ron Fournier