Lincoln Had Internalized The Pain Of Those

You Can Be Enormously Effective For A Period Of Time, Because It's Almost Like There's An Engine In You That Needs To Keep Going, And You Have A Greater Drive Than Other People - Who May Be More Happy And Balanced In Life - Because You Have To Keep Going Out And Proving Yourself Over And Over Again.

Ironically, The More Intensive And Far-reaching A Historian's Research, The Greater The Difficulty Of Citation. As The Mountain Of Material Grows, So Does The Possibility Of Error.

The Turn Of The Century Was The Age Of The Banker, So Much So That The Leading Bankers Of The Day Had Become Legendary Figures In The Public Imagination-vast, Overshadowing Behemoths Whose Colossal Power Seemed To Reach Everywhere.

We've Got To Figure Out A Way That We Give A Private Sphere For Our Public Leaders. We're Not Gonna Get The Best People In Public Life If We Don't Do That.

I've Chosen To Be A Commentator And An Analyzer Of Politics, Rather Than An Actual Doer Of It. I Think It Could Have Gone The Other Way, But I'm Not Sorry That It Didn't, Because This Made It Easier To Be Home With My Kids And To Spend Time With Them. Writing You Can Do Right In Your House. You Don't Have To Go Anywhere.