89 Quotes by H.W. Brands

Even when he played, he made a business of it.

Looking back on his adolescence from the vantage point of his mid-eighties, George H.W. Bush candidly admitted, "I might have been obsessed with bodies – boobs they are now called. But what seventeen-year-old kid was not? Guilty am I.

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.

When he came in first, he was happy to find all sorts of meaning in the results.

He did something he rarely did. He decided not to see things from the other guy's point of view.

Theodore Roosevelt came to Dekota to experience the dying of one age with the slaying of a rare buffalo and the dawning of the West's industrial age.

The horizons of man are incomparably narrower than that of the land on which he toils. Editor of the Nebraska journal

Accustomed to motion, he was forced to be still.

He had always had a gift for conjuring images in his mind's eye. It was one of the secrets of his military success.