American Quote by Timothy Noah

President Ford was a devoted, decent man of impeccable integrity who put service to his country before his own self interest. He helped heal…

— Mark Udall

Even though these are different times, right now we are particularly thinking about what is leadership, and Washington's qualities are as needed today as…

— Igor Babailov

We all obviously need others to look up to, and be inspirational to us. Ford did a great job as far as putting the…

— Steve Garvey

“Americans tend to prefer their presidents on horseback: heroes who dream big and sound trumpets. There is, however, another kind of leader – quieter…

— Jon Meacham

“Washington” has become for many a dirty word that connotes self-serving politicians and devious lobbyists. To be sure, they are there, but I remember…

— Dan Rather

In my idea General Washington is the greatest man; for I look upon him as the most virtuous.

— Marquis de Lafayette

“Only a visionary leadership that can motivate "the better angels of our nature," as Lincoln said, and activate possibilities for a freer, more efficient,…

— Cornel West

When I first came to Washington, what I admired most was that people were just really, really smart with a tremendous amount of intellectual…

— Ezra Klein

I'm not a career politician, so the ways of Washington may be a little obscure to me.

— Michael Bennet

Washington's entire honesty of mind and his fearless look into the face of all facts are qualities which can never go out of fashion…

— Henry Cabot Lodge

... the whole of society in Washington is to some degree political. It is like no other capital city known to me, in that…

— Storm Jameson

When he entered the Oval Office - by fate, not by design - Citizen Ford knew that he was not perfect, just as he…

— Tom Brokaw