Shirley Chisholm Quotes

Once a president gets to the White House, the only audience that is left that really matters is history.

The way you 'take history' is also a way of 'making history.'

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

If I’ve done nothing else for the country, I’ve saved them from Dick Nixon.

The reason that 'Stalingrad' took off was because it emphasized the influence of history on the individual.

History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.

Obama prefers to look forward, not back, as he has stated. So at least during his tenure, there will be no reliable record compiled as a cautionary tale for lawmakers and presidents in future times of crisis. This is the historical Obama.

Every president, as he nears the end of his final term in office, thinks about his place in history.

As someone who has more than a passing acquaintance with most of the 20th century presidents, I have often thought that their accomplishments have little staying power in shaping popular views of their leadership.

Presidential legacies are valuable things, too valuable to be left up to historians.

How different our national perspective would be had Johnson, rather than Nixon, served from 1969 to 1973.

While we read history we make history.

No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.

The people who make history are not the people who make it who are there but the people who make it and then write about it.

I don't believe Richard Nixon ... ever shall be totally exonerated. While it's true he's been pardoned for any Federal crimes he may have committed as President, he can't escape the judgement of history.

Although the name of Abraham Lincoln will be invoked in support of Mr. Nixon, but his career has demonstrated charity for none and malice for all.

History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product.

Writing history is writing the soul of the past...

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.

What Does Trump See When He Looks Back In History? Mostly He Sees ... Trump

In the course of a presidency, a U.S. president says millions of words in public. You never know which of them end up cementing a certain impression.

You can make history, or you will be vilified by it.

Mark my words, history will remember President Zardari as one of the greatest and most successful leaders the country has ever seen.

You can't erase history.

I love and I'm intrigued by what history does to people and to subjects that matter.