A. Scott Berg Quotes

I'm a big historian. Big JFK fan. I got to take a picture under the official JFK White House portrait.

I would a great deal rather be anything, say professor of history, than vice president.

I kept a very full diary of my relationship with Nixon, for some strange reason, until he became president.

I'm often asked, 'Why didn't Benjamin Franklin ever become president?' My short, easy answer is: He died.

As far as reading is concerned, I like historical and political books and works of art.

[Donald Trump] will be the president of the United States.

I think Barack Obama is an amazing man and president. His legacy is ongoing.

There have been many Presidents of the United States and the roll will be indefinitely extended. We have had a number of brilliant soldiers, but only one great general.

I'm not a Lincoln expert, rather a biographer who has had the pleasure of reading much of what has been written about him from his lifetime to this year of his bicentennial. Some advice: Don't try that unless you have at least five years available.

Once you choose to run for president of the United States and succeed, your earlier life, your biography, is a major part of American history.

I think Obama's done a great job.

I believe in President Obama.

'Colonel Roosevelt' is compelling reading, and Morris a brilliant biographer who practices his art at the highest level.

I think George H. W. Bush, who I had lots of disagreements with, remarkably managed the end of the Cold War in a way that history will look back at and say, 'Wow.'

I think the biggest thing, where my passionate-ness comes from, is that I love reading, and it is something that I really care about.

President Obama helped move this country forward.

The good news is that the president gets another chance. The bad news is that he'll be two weeks older.

Ask your friends how many stars will be in the U.S. flag in 50 years? And the reason why that's a reasonable question is because there has never been a President of the United States who's been buried under the same flag he was born under.

Whilst the last members were signing it Doctr. Franklin looking towards the Presidents chair, at the back of which a rising sun happened to be painted, observed to a few members near him, that Painters had found it difficult to distinguish in their art a rising from a setting sun.

It's actually quite common for presidents to believe that future generations will render a verdict on their presidencies that is more lasting or definitive than the judgments of their contemporaries. The reason is that although history is certainly "an argument without end" - we're still debating many age-old questions - time does help settle others.

The last thing we need is another Clinton to be our President. Believe me, one lowlife was enough. We don't need the lowlife's partner.

[Donald] Trump has many and one of the most obvious is right here in Washington.

I had no expectations about Barack Obama and I'm not in the least disillusioned.

Bill Clinton, who, to his credit, has established a clear and consistent foreign policy, which is as follows: Whenever the president of the United States gets anywhere near any foreign head of state, living or dead, he gives that leader a big old hug. This has proven to be an effective way to get foreign leaders to do what we want: Many heads of state are willing to sign any random document that President Clinton thrusts in front of them, without reading it, just so he will stop embracing them.

If the president of the United States, if he's smart, if he needs help, he’d come. I could do a favor for the president