“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
“It is as if a Mohammedan, while recognizing the divine mission of the Arab prophet, were to write for his son a treatise on the ethics of the New Testament as better adapted than the moral system of the Koran for the training and confirming of a young man in the practice of virtue.”
Source: Selections from the Writings of Cicero: Includes Pdf Ebook
“Trump isn’t the first wannabe dictator who accused the press of being fake news and the enemy of the people. Hitler called the press Lügenpresse, which is German for fake news.”
Source: How to Defeat the Trump Cult: Want to Save Democracy? Share This Book
“America must be in really bad shape if you elected me president. You better get it together and find some other qualified people to run this country or we'll all be in big trouble.”
Source: The Kid Who Ran for President
“Hell was invented for people like Trump.”
Source: Inside The Mind of an Introvert
“Stupid is terminal. There is no cure. I know those who've beaten cancer, but not a single individual who's ever been cured of stupid. Fortunately, nature has its own way of thinning the herd. The stupid ultimately don't survive. The antelope that doesn't recognize the lion as predator, winds up inside the lion.”
Source: Horse Latitudes
“When all is said and done, Donald Trump will make History completely forget about Richard Nixon.”