“ Next time I tell you someone from Texas should not be president of the United States, please pay atten Molly Ivins
“ For reasons I find hard to fathom, readers with government [Harvard?] experience follow my argument more easily that do some of those for whom it remains theoretical. (xv) Richard E. Neustadt
“ If this were a courageous country,it would ask Gloria to lead itsince she is sane and funny and beautiful and smartand the National Leaders we've always hadare not.When I listen to her talk about wome… Alice Walker
“ My job is to find the politicians and the presidents and the pompous people who are telling other people how to live, powerful, visible creatures and ... go at them. Craig Ferguson
“ They treat colored people like kings and queens in Washington, cause thas where the president lives. Would they treat colored people anything but good in a city where the president hangs his hat and p… Edward P. Jones
“ There is no strife, no prejudice, no national conflict in outer space as yet. Its hazards are hostile to us all. Its conquest deserves the best of all mankind, and its opportunity for peaceful coopera… John F. Kennedy
“ Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so. Gore Vidal
“ Take a king or a president or anybody. Put a heavy sack of gold in one hand and a feather-light declaration about freedom in the other. And then an outlaw sticks a pistol in his face and says give me… Charles Frazier
“ The election of Donald Trump confirmed everything I knew of my country and none of what I could accept. The idea that America would follow its first black president with Donald Trump accorded with its… Ta-Nehisi Coates
“ Reverend Harper: Have you ever tried to persuade him that he wasn't Teddy Roosevelt?Abby Brewster: Oh, no.Martha Brewster: Oh, he's so happy being Teddy Roosevelt.Abby Brewster: Oh... Do you remember,… Joseph Kesselring
“ Son, my father said of Obama, you know the country got to be messed up for them folks to give him the job. Ta-Nehisi Coates
“ There was a touch of prairie about the fellow.--hans vollmanYes.--roger bevins iiiLike stepping into a summer barn late at night.--hans vollmanOr a musty plains office, where some bright candle still… George Saunders
“ It’s an insoluble dilemma, really. Presidents change, different men with different temperaments and appetites sit in the Oval Office. However, a long-range intelligence strategy doesn’t change, not on… Robert Ludlum
“ The democracy of to-day hold the liberty of one man to be absolutely nothing when in conflict with another man's right of property...This is a world of compensations; and he would -be- no slave must c… Abraham Lincoln
“ If either one or two candidates is dominating the field at the time of the first primaries and caucuses, the voters are superfluous because the victor is already guaranteed. If, however, no candidate… Roger Lawrence Butler
“ The most important thing you need to do [in this job] is to have big chunks of time during the day when all you’re doing is thinking. Barack Obama
“ Someone threw a cabbage at William Howard Taft. That didn't bother Taft. He quipped, "I see that one of my adversaries has lost his head. Judith St. George
“ Most of the mess that is called history comes about because kings and presidents cannot be satisfied with a nice chicken and a good loaf of bread. Jennifer Donnelly
“ If there was one thing I had learned. . . it was that politics was a damn dirty business. Clint Hill
