H.W. Brands

"Such was the code: Strive for victory, but never seem to be self-involved."

"He made his character his platform."

"I can see that spark coming back when he talks about the future."

"He understood the code of his social class enough to affect an air of indifference about life."

"His was a quiet but persistent charisma."

"The politics of the possible was being replaced by the politics of purity."

"He was trying to find his footing in a world both familiar and foreign"

"He was a generous but subtly demanding boss."

"It is more important to me that my students come out of my class believing 'This story is interesting and I might want to know more about it', than to fill them up with information. If I can remind them or convince them that history is interesting then I feel I have succeeded, because unlike chemistry or physics, history is a subject that anyone can teach themselves, if they are interested."["

"One of George H. W. Bush's early teachers at Andover wrote, "At the moment he is intellectually immature for his powers of reasoning are not entirely developed."