Critically Quote by Robert Dallek

I need my president to be prepared to handle all the critical issues our country faces.

— Jason Winston George

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

One of the hardest things for the president is to distinguish the routine issues that come through from the essential issues that affect the…

— Henry A. Kissinger

A president, like a college freshman, can't know in advance which questions he'll have to answer or what topics he'll have to master. He…

— Walter Kirn

Any president is going to need extremely good advisers.

— Ron Johnson

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

— Michael Beschloss

We need a president that's focused on the challenges that we're being faced as a nation - not a president that's going to decide…

— Doug Burgum

Most great leaders in history that I've studied always need to get as wide a range of opinions as possible so that they can…

— John McCain

A president has an inescapable responsibility to provide direction: What are we trying to achieve? What are we trying to prevent? Why? To do…

— Henry Kissinger

Based on history, many presidents come into office with lots of plans, and an agenda and things they want to start and an order…

— Martha MacCallum

Presidents should do whatever possible and practical to encourage an environment of cooperation and bipartisanship. And they should maintain a certain level of decorum,…

— Mark McKinnon

Whenever I look at the history of presidents I deeply admire - the one thing that I'm always struck by is persistence. It's a…

— Barack Obama