I didn't realize the president was such an historian.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
President Obama had a few historians at the White House for a couple of dinners. I was lucky enough to be one of those asked, and he was very interested in Ronald Reagan, and I came away feeling that.
Oh no, I'm not a historian or anything like that.
He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be - a student of history; and like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
I'm a historian in my own mind.
The funny thing is that Dick Cheney has done more than anybody in the White House for quite a long time to throw up roadblocks against future historians.
We are not merely historians but also and always citizens.
Leave history to historians.
I prefer that people remember me as a president who made reforms rather than a president who did nothing.
A good historian is timeless; although he is a patriot, he will never flatter his country in any respect.
Man, it seems to me, is not in history: he is history.