Allan Lichtman Quotations

selling out the American people on behalf of a very few, big corporate interests.

Bush has to give a compelling reason to voters to make a change. In times of peace and prosperity, the incumbent party has all the trump cards.

Maybe second term presidents have been on the mountaintop too long, breathing rarified air, and think they can do anything.

The argument holds no water at all, not even a thimbleful.

Even if I am being conservative, I don't see how Obama can lose.

Our best presidents have really combined domestic leadership with heroic achievements in foreign affairs or war.

A lot of Richard Nixon's very dangerous and un-democratic tendencies were reinforced by the sounding board of his top aides, including people who went to jail, like his attorney general, John Mitchell, his top domestic aides, Erlichman and Haldeman.

This is a very tough one to turn around,

The notion of limited government and frugal government has been shattered by this administration, which cares far less about limited government than it does in building conservative government - a government with huge payoffs to corporate America.

Ahh -- Fred Fielding -- the new consensus choice. (He was) John Dean's deputy. He knew it all.