ALLAN LICHTMAN

History is a very powerful force.

I think there’s more of a tendency now than in the past to avoid discussion of serious problems. It has a pernicious effect on our politics and on governing, because to govern, you need a mandate. And you don’t get a mandate if you don’t say what you’re going to do.

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

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

A politician can never escape his past; he can transcend his past.

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

I'm not a psychic. I don't look at a crystal ball.

Early polls mean nothing.

There can come a time when change is so cataclysmic that it changes the fundamentals of how we do our politics.

A politician can never escape his past; he can transcend his past.

Early polls mean nothing.

I think there’s more of a tendency now than in the past to avoid discussion of serious problems. It has a pernicious effect on our politics and on governing, because to govern, you need a mandate. And you don’t get a mandate if you don’t say what you’re going to do.

History is a very powerful force.

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

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

I'm not a psychic. I don't look at a crystal ball.

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

There can come a time when change is so cataclysmic that it changes the fundamentals of how we do our politics.