Top 126 Quotes by Robert Dallek

About Robert Dallek

These are some quotes by American author Robert Dallek Historian, who was born on May 16, 1934.

What makes war interesting for Americans is that we don't fight war on our soil, we don't have direct experience of it, so there's an openness about the meanings we give to it.

What makes war interesting for Americans is that we don't fight war on our soil, we don't have direct experience of it, so there's an openness about the meanings we give to it.

Robert Dallek

If nobody trusts you as president, then you can't get anything done.

If nobody trusts you as president, then you can't get anything done.

Robert Dallek

A presidential candidate's great desire is to be seen as pragmatic, and they hope their maneuvering and shifting will be seen in pursuit of some higher purpose. It doesn't mean they are utterly insincere.

Robert Dallek

American politics is theatre. There is a frightening emotionalism at national conventions.

American politics is theatre. There is a frightening emotionalism at national conventions.

Robert Dallek

The rise of the Tea Party, along with the emergence of Christine O'Donnell in Delaware, Sharron Angle in Nevada, Carl Paladino in New York and Ron Paul in Kentucky, is not the first time in American history that voters have responded to hard economic times by supporting angry, unorthodox Senate and gubernatorial candidates.

Robert Dallek

For style and for creating a mood of optimism and hope - Kennedy on that count is as effective as any president the country has had in its history.

For style and for creating a mood of optimism and hope - Kennedy on that count is as effective as any president the country has had in its history.

Robert Dallek

Nixon's deep antipathy toward Jews is well known, and he took a strange satisfaction in having Kissinger in his inner circle, where he could periodically taunt him.

Nixon's deep antipathy toward Jews is well known, and he took a strange satisfaction in having Kissinger in his inner circle, where he could periodically taunt him.

Robert Dallek

Governing is one thing, campaigning is another - and the latter becomes far more pronounced in an election-year State of the Union.

Governing is one thing, campaigning is another - and the latter becomes far more pronounced in an election-year State of the Union.

Robert Dallek

Kennedy is remembered as a success mainly because of what came after: Johnson and Vietnam. Nixon and Watergate.

Kennedy is remembered as a success mainly because of what came after: Johnson and Vietnam. Nixon and Watergate.

Robert Dallek

Presidents are not only the country's principal policy chief, shaping the nation's domestic and foreign agendas, but also the most visible example of our values.

Presidents are not only the country's principal policy chief, shaping the nation's domestic and foreign agendas, but also the most visible example of our values.

Robert Dallek

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