Quotes About Legacy

Carter's done a lot more good since he's been out of the White House than when he was in it.

The 800-pound gorillas of TV news are gone. When I was the White House correspondent at NBC, and Tom Brokaw was anchor, the reporters were protected.

I got to be White House chief of staff, ten years of congressman, secretary of defense, vice-president. If you're a political junkie like I obviously am - that was - every one of those was just a tremendous experience. I'm very comfortable with what I did and why I did it and how I did it. And I'll let others judge whether they liked it or not.

I remember someone once asked Jack Kennedy why he was paying such close attention to the renovation of the square across from the White House, and he said, 'It may be the only thing my presidency is remembered for.'

Of course, Dwight D. Eisenhower gets credit for doing more for golf than any other White House resident, a mid- to high-handicapper though he was.

When I was asked to do a song from 'In the Heights' at the White House in 2009, I chose instead to do 'Alexander Hamilton' because I felt like I was meeting a moment.

But presidents matter. That's one of the biggest lessons I learned being in the White House.

To me, it's the White House and always will be.

The Obamas have changed the culture of the White House.

Presidents grow up in the White House. The times shape the man.

From the U.S. Capitol Building to the White House, our national symbols that represent freedom to so many of us, were built by people who were anything but free.

Second terms in the White House open the way for second thoughts.

For ideas to prevail, many of their defenders have to die in obscurity. Their anonymous influence makes itself felt.

The R&B will always prevail. It will always last. The blues will always last.

I think my legacy will be in what most people don't like about me: my style - the separation between judge and lawyers, judge and politics, the real independence of the judiciary from the executive, from the legislative, from money. I'm criticized in Brazil because of that. In the end, I hope to prevail.

But the thing about 'Narcos' is that in the end, evil does not prevail. In the end, ambition destroys everything that you worked to build and it's not just in the show but in history.

I've read about actors trying to prevent their kids from getting into it, and I think that's from what they themselves experienced in the industry.

The best care on earth cannot prevent us all dying in the end.

My father's family was mostly obliterated in the Holocaust, and I grew up very much with the sense that the central moral and political question is how do we prevent these things from happening again.

The reason people blame things on previous generations is that there's only one other choice.

My mother desperately wanted children. She had a child that was stillborn - something I learned when I was looking through her 'effects' after she had died. It was then that I discovered my original birth certificate, which indicated the previous birth.

Why would you want to just make up a middle name when the name should be coming from family and previous generations? I think it's really important.

Let's face it, the Obama administration was handed a pretty poor deal from the previous administration.

Life creates new heroes, and new heroes always find it easiest to beat up on the previous heroes.