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“President of the United States. What a rotten job. You’re the guy or gal who’s always to blame. The economy. Foreign policy. Drugs in the schools. Crime on the streets … It’s all your fault.”
Gregg Stebben, White House Confidential: The Little Book of Weird Presidential History

Richard Ben Cramer
“The fact was, the Senate’s “advise and consent” was intended, from the start, to forestall the President from remaking the Court in his image. The Senate had, for most of its two hundred years, scrutinized the philosophy and politics of nominees—not just their competence, or honesty. And when a President picked a justice for reasons of ideology, it was the Senate’s duty to examine that ideology.”
Richard Ben Cramer, What It Takes: The Way to the White House

Richard Ben Cramer
“Of course, that made the papers, too. Well, what of it? ... He didn’t say the guy’s name! ... Gaghhd! Come on! What had the guy ever done—that hadn’t been handed to him? ... Dole never could figure what they saw in George Bush.”
Richard Ben Cramer, What It Takes: The Way to the White House

Stacy Schiff
“Deeply idealistic — a moral people, Adams held, would elect moral leaders — he believed virtue the soul of democracy. To have a villainous ruler imposed on you was a misfortune. To elect him yourself was a disgrace.”
Stacy Schiff, The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams

Richard Ben Cramer
“They didn’t ... and by the end of the campaign, Bush was well known as a worm, a weanling woodlouse, a weedy wort in the garden of politics, a wan, whimpering ... well, it was war.”
Richard Ben Cramer, What It Takes: The Way to the White House

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