“ The President is also captured in a well-worn TV news clip, making a boilerplate response to a question on terrorism and then asking the reporters to watch his drive. Well, that's what you get if you… Christopher Hitchens
“ Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public. Dwight D. Eisenhower
“ I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passi… Benjamin Disraeli
“ Presidents, when not outright telling lies, feel obliged to shade the truth most of the time. This is called politics; when a president lies successfully, he is called a statesman. Gore Vidal
“ Americans talked about voters the same way Russians talked about Stalin. They had to be obeyed. Ken Follett
“ He had become, through a combination of heritage and character, a keeper of the national conscience. Barbara W. Tuchman
