Biography Quote by Ronald Kessler

To reform the Secret Service, the agency needs a director from outside the agency who will be immune from that culture and not beholden…

— Ronald Kessler

“The White House is a character crucible," according to Bertram S. Brown, M.D., a psychiatrist who formerly headed the National Institute of Mental Health…

— Ronald Kessler

Complex man that he was, J. Edgar Hoover left nothing to chance. The director shrewdly recognized that building what became known as the world's…

— Ronald Kessler

Voters who disregarded Richard Nixon's involvement in the questionable ethics issue that led to his Checkers speech should not have been surprised when he…

— Ronald Kessler

To become a Secret Service agent, applicants must pass a polygraph exam. But after being hired, agents are never required to undergo regular lie…

— Ronald Kessler

“No one can imagine the kind of pressure being president of the U.S. imposes on an individual and how easily a president can be…

— Ronald Kessler

In a series of articles beginning on Oct. 2, 1966, I wrote about the long-forgotten history of the Liberty Tree. To call attention to…

— Ronald Kessler

“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

Love him or hate him, no one has been able to figure out Donald Trump.

— Ronald Kessler

Rather than use the term 'profiling,' the profilers prefer to say they engage in criminal investigative analysis. That is because, besides developing profiles, the…

— Ronald Kessler

The media are always on the lookout for possible sightings of D.B. Cooper, the man who parachuted from a plane with $200,000 in ransom…

— Ronald Kessler

The truth is that no internal reviews or congressional hearings will change the Secret Service's broken management culture. It needs better leadership.

— Ronald Kessler