Quotes About Legacy

It took a Clinton to clean up after the first Bush, it may take another Clinton to clean up after the second one

History is changed by martyrs who tell the truth.

Each generation is responsible to make the future of the next.

I have impeached myself by resigning.

I am, as many people are, inspired by Jack Layton's legacy and the way that he approached politics.

History will tell the story, America will always stand.

I was known as the chief grave robber of my state.

People who leave Washington do so by way of the box... ballet or coffin.

I think Karl Rove saw that in George W. Bush early on and understood the impact that he could have on Texas politics and probably on national politics.

Ronald Reagan: a triumph of the embalmer's art.

Controversial proposals, once accepted, soon become hallowed.

The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election.

In less than a year, the Bush administration will strut out of office, leaving the country in roughly the same condition a toddler leaves a diaper.

I see myself as an old man and an unqualified teacher to the nation. I think being a teacher is probably the most important thing you can be in politics.

In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get the future.

Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.

When you're out of office, you can be a statesman.

Unlike Churchill, I have no plans to shape history. . . . Socrates gave advice

France has never gotten over the fact that it was once a great power and is now just a great nuisance.

The intergenerational poverty that troubles us so much today is predominantly a poverty of values.

The longer I live, Dorian, the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us. In art, as in politics, les grand-pères ont toujours tort.

I am to hip-hop what Obama is to politics

In the home of the brave, Jefferson turning over in his grave.

At 23 years old, I came into politics as a dragon slayer. At 63 years old, I'm going out as a dragon.