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  • 1930 - 2004
  • 4 quotes

James David Barber (1930 - 2004), is quoted 4 times on QuoteForever. The subjects that come up most often are President, Buttons, Pie and Trying.

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Trying to make the presidency work these days is like trying to sew buttons on a custard pie.

Ronald Reagan is the first modern President whose contempt for the facts is treated as a charming idiosyncrasy.

The Kennedy home was a place of much action and laughter, a lively, brawling mob of children overseen by a mother who knew when to look the other way.

[The American public demands] a sense of legitimacy from and in the presidency. There is more to this than dignity, more than propriety. The president is expected to personify our betterness in an inspiring way, to express in what he does and is, not just what he says, a moral idealism which, in much of the public mind, is the very opposite of politics.

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