"We have to judge presidents not only by the long-term consequences of their actions but also by how they make citizens in their own day feel. One reason that Nixon never succeeded in his comeback campaign is that he had such a negative impact on public trust at the time of his presidency."

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Source : "Making Presidential History". The Washington Post Live Q&As, www.slate.com. August 9, 2007.

David Greenberg

#Impact Quotes #Long Quotes #Judging Quotes

“The graphic emphasis placed on those first lines is rather hard to square with the proposition that the monument expresses no particular religious preference.”
“Waste not your time on broad sketches in color.”
“I don't think I have accomplished what I still have to accomplish. There is one thing that I would like to do, and that's to bring security and peace to the Jewish people.”
“It is well known that we fight in God's cause... but unless God helps us by a miracle the English, who have faster and handier ships than ours, and many more long-range guns, and who know their advantage just as well as we do, will never close with us at all, but stand aloof and knock us to pieces with their culverins, without our being able to do them any serious hurt. So we are sailing against England in the confident hope of a miracle.”
“I think there needs to be a meeting to set an agenda for more meetings about meetings.”
“If somebody's going to earn citizenship, with whatever other hurdles are put in the way, at the end of the road they should be able to speak English, they should be able to read English, they should have some knowledge of American history,”
“I recruited a Czech kicker, and during the eye exam, when asked to read the bottom line, the kicker replied, Read it? I know him.”
“Those who carry the vessels of the Lord must be clean, must be holy (Isa. 52:11).”

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