In 1996, Bill Clinton declared the era of big government over in the State of the Union address.
The era of big government is over.
First of all, Bill Clinton was an extremely good president and more importantly, the country was in a very good position when he actually walked away.
I grew up in the era when Dan Rather hated Richard Nixon. He was a newsman, but you knew what his opinion was.
Modern candidates seem to have to live with political matters all the time. In my father's time, a politician's home was still his castle.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt and J.F Kennedy were Presidents in very different times.
In the fifties, no one wore beards. In Eisenhower's day, as in the time of the Founding Fathers, all chins were smooth, while during the Civil War, beards were as common as sepsis.
If we have George W. Bush as president, we're going to go back to the kind of policies we had when his father and Ronald Reagan were president.
I started writing regularly for 'The Atlantic' roughly around the time that Barack Obama got inaugurated.
Dwight Eisenhower presented a face of America that was heroic and resolute; Ronald Reagan represented a return to confidence and glamour after the weary Carter years.
We are now living in a post-Roosevelt, post-Reagan universe. What comes next will not be post-partisan, because faction is an intrinsic human impulse.
I was first elected to public office when the Reagan revolution was in full swing. Maximizing freedom guided the policies of that era, with tremendous success.
I was born in 1953, so that's the Eisenhower administration.
This [the Bush administration] is a print administration, not a television administration.
I don't live in the Cold War. Some people maybe still live in the Cold War, but this is their problem, not mine.
The Revolution in America signaled the beginning of a new political era, that this revolution would necessarily determine an important progress in world civilization and that before long, it would cause great changes in the social order which then existed in Europe.
There have been two periods in my lifetime when the excitement of government and of public issues drew to Washington many of the bright young people graduating from colleges and law schools. These were essentially the Roosevelt and the Kennedy years.
With his gigantic personality, my grandfather burst onto the great political panorama of that era made up only of little men with little ideas.
There will be great presidents again but there will never be another Camelot.
I suppose that history will remember my term in office as the years when the Cold War began to overshadow our lives. I have hardly a day in office that has not been dominated by this all-embracing struggle. And always in the background there has been the atomic bomb. But when history says that my term of office saw the begining of the Cold War, it will also say that in those eight years we have set the course that can win it.
It is the era of Trump, and I'm just not a Trump-like politician.
Bill Clinton is the guy that said, "The era of Big Government is over." Whether or not he meant it or not, he said it.
I am basically a supporter of Barack Obama - it is not easy to be a post-partisan president in a hyper-partisan era.
If Hillary Clinton becomes president, how is she going to be able to get the country behind her when she seems like a political figure from another era?
For federal races, being able to carefully navigate the Trump Era is a significant challenge.
