Adam Clymer Quotes

It is better to go down in infamy than to never go down at all.

I want to go down in the history books with what I've achieved.

I am not a superstar in Britain.

Barack Obama is the most famous living person in the history of the world.

My definition of a star is someone who really lasts for a very long time.

To whatever degree you have as a celebrity or notoriety, there are people who see you as an opinion leader.

History passes the final judgment.

I often wonder what I will be remembered in history for. Scholar? Military hero? Builder?

Immortality. We all want to be remembered: We want to do things that will make people say, 'Isn't he wonderful?'

Movie stars and singers never fully pass away because their images are replayed on film and recordings, over and over.

I don't think of myself as a kind of celebrity, but wherever I go, people know me; they greet me.

Few characters in history are indispensable.

Napolean is dead - but Beethoven lives.

Winning and making history is something you can't buy. Me? I'm a guy who loves history. When I'm 60 or 70, I don't want to be remembered for the money I make. I want to be in the history books.

Mr. Nixon … will, with time, be a landmark in the history of quiet, determined desperation.

The President of today is the postage stamp of tomorrow.

I don’t understand why Jackie O[nassis] thinks she’s so grand that she doesn’t owe it to the public to have another great marriage to somebody big. You’d think she’d want to scheme and connive to get into history again.

We of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us.

It is very difficult to capture over the centuries, the charisma of an individual.

The unexpressed aim of every politician is to influence events that history books will record his name - and spell it right.

Your great work in world politics this summer, will be, when the history of our time is written, one of your most, if not your most, certain titles to a really enduring fame.

To know that someone decades later is still just as impactful as they were when they were alive, we need pioneers like that.

There are very few people whose names come to symbolize their achievement, even if it's a negative achievement.

I always aimed at being a legend.

I want to be remembered as a star.