02UndatedThe author defines professionalism as exemplified by his subjects in their mutual unwillingness to take expected opposition personally. They would not allow grudges to get in the way of more important business.Chris Matthews / quote ↗
04UndatedHe was experienced enough to spot the downside of doing the right thing.Chris Matthews / quote ↗
05UndatedHistorically, the coupling of president and Speaker has been a tricky one that encourages a choreography both quick-footed and waryChris Matthews / quote ↗
06UndatedThe Russian people were just like us. They were victims of their own government. Ronald ReaganChris Matthews / quote ↗
09UndatedThe author deduces the best way James Baker serve Reagan as Chief of Staff was to continually remind him why he wanted to be president.Chris Matthews / quote ↗
10UndatedIn politics there is a large difference between loosing and being defeated.Chris Matthews / quote ↗
11UndatedHe'd made a name for himself out there in the world beyond not just in spite of the distinctly unfashionable persona he presented, but, perhaps, BECAUSE of it.Chris Matthews / quote ↗
12UndatedThe author attributes part of the Carter-Reagan divide to their respective attitudes toward the city from which they governed. Carter was deeply suspicious of its coziness. Reagan intended to enjoy his temporary home even while delivering it from its reigning ideology.Chris Matthews / quote ↗
13UndatedThe author, at the time a Carter speechwriter in the 1980 campaign, showed visible distress at his boss's performance and was warned by a friend in the traveling press, lest he become the story.Chris Matthews / quote ↗
16UndatedThe Democrats just don't have a foreign policy that they're willing to defend, that they're willing to use to take down the president's. We're dealing with the power of suggestion here.Chris Matthews / quote ↗
