The American people are strange in their attitudes toward their idols, " he (Taft) mused. They lead them on and then "cut their legs from under them, " simply "to make their fall all the greater.

Good leadership requires you to surround yourself with people of diverse perspectives who can disagree with you without fear of retaliation.

The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image.

That is what leadership is all about: staking your ground ahead of where opinion is and convincing people, not simply following the popular opinion of the moment.

Once a president gets to the White House, the only audience that is left that really matters is history.

As a historian, what I trust is my ability to take a mass of information and tell a story shaped around it.

Go ahead, and fear not. You will have a full library at your service.

Better to have your enemies inside your tent pissing out, then to have them outside your tent pissing in.

I still think about that one Jamiroquai video a lot.

Excitement about things became a habit, a part of my personality, and the expectation that I should enjoy new experiences often engendered the enjoyment itself.

Whatever it is that you do, if you have that passion and desire for it, that's the most important thing.

We have so much to learn from a fallen teardrop which is wiped away from our cheek…never to be felt again

I was not being mean. Mean was her mother giving her the name Bernice Woodward.Ryals, R.K.. Cursed (The Thorne Trilogy Book 1) (Kindle Locations 66-67). . Kindle Edition.

Well, the ancients might not have been very heroic. Most of them were probably like Mother, crouched somewhere trying to work out how to make fake jawbone jewelry that would look like the real thing.

So what we're talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And what we're facing in Africa is an unprecedented threat to human dignity and equality.

I want to reclaim 'liberal.' I'm a liberal, and I think most Americans are liberals.

I believe in returning the nation's wealth to its rightful owners.

All sensitive people agree that there is a peculiar emotion provoked by works of art.

Reading is important - read between the lines. Don't swallow everything.

I've seen batting all over the world. And in other countries too

You know, it's just politics, it's a game grown-ups like to play, like we lil' children play with toys.