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There is no disputing that Lincoln was a great man.

It is therefore not to be wondered at that Lincoln's single term in the House of Representatives at Washington added practically nothing to his reputation.

I'm not sure Lincoln would fare well if he were a presidential candidate today.

President Abraham Lincoln never lost his ardor for the United States to remain united during the Civil War.

The only thing that surprised me about 'Lincoln' is that most of the critics who reviewed the film seem not to have grasped what should have been apparent right from the start, which is that 'Lincoln' is at bottom a play with pictures, not a screenplay.

Abraham Lincoln comes from nothing, has no education, no money, lives in the middle of nowhere on the frontier. And despite the fact that he suffers one tragedy and one setback after another, through sheer force of will, he becomes something extraordinary: not only the president but the person who almost single-handedly united the country.

Only a crazy man would write a novel in Lincoln's voice.

Well, it seems to me Lincoln, I suppose, is kind of a model of a particular sort of presidency, a presidency that first of all is elected by a minority of the votes.

Lincoln emancipated nobody. The man freed not a single slave.

America has not produced a more salient political musician than Gil Scott-Heron.