I’m the farthest thing from a bibliophile. I purge my collection regularly: If I haven’t read a book in a couple of years, I try to give it to someone who will. H. W. Brands Read Quote
In the early 19th to the early 20th century, people had a lot of things wrong with them. Doctors didn’t know how to fix them, and so they lived with them. H. W. Brands Read Quote
President Obama ran a campaign in 2008 that was entirely expected from a non-incumbent. You promise, and you imply that if you elect me, everything good is going to happen. H. W. Brands Read Quote
The Republican Party has moved substantially to the right of where Reagan was. H. W. Brands Read Quote
I’m often asked, ‘Why didn’t Benjamin Franklin ever become president?’ My short, easy answer is: He died. H. W. Brands Read Quote
Presidents are evaluated not by what they did by the stroke of their own pen; it’s what they persuade Congress to do. H. W. Brands Read Quote
In the business arena, the standard rules of morality don’t apply. What we’re really looking for is efficiency. It doesn’t do anyone any good to be nice to the weak. In a certain sense, competition is inefficient. H. W. Brands Read Quote
I’ve probably written some books – I know I’ve written some books that were more interesting to me than to a large audience, but that was mostly when I was first getting started in academia and writing for a narrow audience. H. W. Brands Read Quote
You might say presidents are drafting the first chapter of their memoirs in these seventh-year State of the Union addresses. They’re trying to get the public and the media to think about their presidencies in the way that they would like to have them thought of. H. W. Brands Read Quote
