David Greenberg Quotes

History is one of those things that politicians tend not to use.

It is normal for politicians in all countries to profess themselves the pupils of history, anxious to draw the right lessons from her teaching.

Well, you know what, I'm 60 years old, and I've been interested in politics since I was on my daddy's knee. During the 1948 election, we were praying for Truman. I know a lot about politics.

History is past politics, and politics present history.

Presidents live and work in a house of history. They dwell with ghosts. Present power and the weight of the past are ambient realities of daily life in the presidency, and the two are intimately connected.

President [Donald} Trump should stop tweeting and start leading.

Lincoln, they used to talk about him almost as bad as they talk about me. So democracy has never been for the faint of heart.

Words matter when you run for president. And they really matter when you are president.

Bush met with former President Jimmy Carter. Jimmy Carter is 76 years old, or as Democrats call him 'their bright new star of the future.'

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.

A new report just came out that says President Obama has mentioned Jesus Christ in more speeches than President Bush did. Can you believe that? Still, neither has used the phrase 'Oh God, oh God,' more than President Clinton.

Folks, tomorrow America will get to hear those four words we've been waiting for: "Former president George Bush".

How do we get from electrons to elections and from protons to presidents?

To me, polls are like approval ratings for presidents are like an offensive line, right. And if an offensive line is weak, that means the defense is empowered and emboldened.

Remember Henry Adam's jest that the succession of presidents from Washington to Grant disproved the theory of evolution?

In a speech today, President Obama said that Michelle Obama is very strong and talented and she frequently tells him that he is wrong. As a result, Michelle Obama is now the Republican front-runner for 2016.

The practice of our democracy depends on a sense of, and knowledge of, history in the same way that playing in the World Series requires a bat and a ball.

I have no message to give the politicians of the world. They're all completely addicted to promiscuous verbalization and I'm quite sure they would not be at all interested in hearing about cut-ups and hieroglyphics and still less interested to hear about silence.

President Bush was in Los Angeles yesterday where he announced his new campaign theme - “Safer, Stronger, and Tested.” Isn't that a condom ad?

Coolidge's stat was so low; he's ranked in the bottom half of presidents. What I found when I encountered this man was the leader I might like to see today.

I've never heard anybody [of president's candidates] talk about the poorly educated.

It is quite clear that history will record that Margaret Thatcher was the greatest Prime Minister this country has had since Churchill.

That seems to be a woman who is genuinely depressed that this is the political dialogue she [Hillary Clinton] is been thrown into in the 21st century in running for president of the United States.

Putin is no different than any other powerful man, like a Senator, or a President.

What do I "think" of President Reagan? The best answer to give would be: I don't think of him. And the more I see, the less I think.