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" The candidate who promises the most has the best chance of winning. "

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" Presidents are evaluated not by what they did by the stroke of their own pen; it's what they persuade Congress to do. "

" I was raised in, and presumably to, the cutlery business. I really didn't think that that's what I wanted to do for a career. But I felt a certain obligation to give it a try. "

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" Booker Washington was essentially the head Republican boss in the South. He was a power broker. "

" Toward the end of the 1964 presidential campaign, Reagan gives a speech on behalf of Barry Goldwater. It was like a screen test for a new career. "

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" For Andrew Jackson, politics was very personal. He hated not just the federal debt. He hated debt at all. "

" 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. "

" Reagan's enduring value as a conservative icon stems from his resolute preaching of the conservative gospel, in words that still warm the hearts of the most zealous conservatives. Yet Reagan's value as a conservative model must begin with recognition of his flexibility in the pursuit of his conservative goals. "

" Most presidents have not considered 100 days a significant milepost. "

" Reagan refused to demonize his foes. Instead he charmed them, with a few exceptions, including Tip O'Neill, the Democratic Speaker of the House and the embodiment of the liberalism Reagan sought to reverse. "

" Reagan gave essentially the same speech from the beginning to the end of his political career, which was always, 'The American people are great, the government always screws things up, let's get the government out of the way.' On the foreign policy side it was, 'Communism is bad, and we're going to defeat it.' "

" On style points alone, Donald Trump makes GWB look magnificently presidential. "

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" The American political system is based on the president taking the initiative and Congress responding. With President Trump, it's been the opposite. "

" When a president was elected with foreign policy experience, it was usually less about his foreign policy experience than other things. "

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" When the Constitution was written in 1787, there was this supposition that American politics would be above party. The people who would staff the positions in government would have the interests of the country, or at least their states and congressional districts, at heart, and so they wouldn't form permanent political parties. "

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