“Weakness is still what I see: weakness in the sense of a great gap between what is expected of a man (or someday woman) and assured capacity to carry through. Expectations arise and clerkly tasks increase, while prospects for sustained support from any quarter worsen as foreign alliances loosen and political parties wane.”
Source: Presidential Power and the Modern Presidents: The Politics of Leadership from Roosevelt to Reagan
“Trump's MAGA minions live in a Fox News bubble.”
Source: How to Defeat the Trump Cult: Want to Save Democracy? Share This Book
“Hitler loved to describe any newspaper that exposed him for what he was as Luegenpresse, which is German for Fake News.”
Source: How to Defeat the Trump Cult: Want to Save Democracy? Share This Book
“Y'all fucking around. From what I'm seeing, Trump will be reelected President of the United States of America. Do you hear me? DO YOU HEAR ME?”
“I'm not a state or federal employee, so the shutdown only indirectly affects my family and I. I have, however, been out of work before. I know how it feels to pay bills all the while watching what little I managed to save, dwindle. In your hands, Mr. President, America is Troy.”
“Power I defined as personal influence of an effective sort on governmental action.”
Source: Presidential Power and the Modern Presidents: The Politics of Leadership from Roosevelt to Reagan
“The United States was no longer the overwhelming military power in the world, no longer sure of never losing wars. no longer confident of having learned how to maintain employment and to check inflation, no longer reveling in resource independence, technological supremacy, favorable exchange rates, and the privileged life abroad. (xiii)”
Source: Presidential Power and the Modern Presidents: The Politics of Leadership from Roosevelt to Reagan
“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)”
Source: Presidential Power and the Modern Presidents: The Politics of Leadership from Roosevelt to Reagan
“They will not be identical unless by chance: human prediction about other humans is not good enough. Why that is sometimes hard for readers inexperienced in government to see, I cannot tell (xvi).”
Source: Presidential Power and the Modern Presidents: The Politics of Leadership from Roosevelt to Reagan
“I don't expect life to make sense," he said after a few moments, "but it could certainly be pleasant if it would stop kicking us in the balls.”
Source: The Republic of Thieves