Comprehensive Quote by Robert Toombs

Presidents are not only the country's principal policy chief, shaping the nation's domestic and foreign agendas, but also the most visible example of our…

— Robert Dallek

As the leader of the most powerful nation in the world, our president is more than a list of policies. They set the tone…

— Max Joseph

There are certain basic principles regarding the proper role of government. If principles are correct, then they can be applied to any specific proposal…

— Ezra Taft Benson

Our best presidents have really combined domestic leadership with heroic achievements in foreign affairs or war.

— Allan Lichtman

Of the powers conferred upon the General Government by the Constitution of the United States much the most important are those given to the…

— Samuel Freeman Miller

“It is *essential* to such a government, that it be derived from the great body of the society, not from an inconsiderable proportion, or…

— James Madison

White House officials acknowledge in broad terms that a president's time and public rhetoric are among his most valuable policy tools.

— Barton Gellman

Success in war underpins the claims to greatness of many presidents.

— Anonymous

The principal of unity and indivisibility of the republic are the essential reference points.

— Giorgio Napolitano

This Republic was called into being, organized, and is upheld, by a great political doctrine.

— Caleb Cushing

If we resort for a criterion to the different principles on which different forms of government are established, we may define a republic to…

— James Madison

“It was the power of Business, not the deliberations of statesman, that shaped the destinies of nations. The Foreign Ministers of the great powers…

— Eric Ambler