Quotes by : Chris Matthews

Each man had come to know the other's caricature as a lie.

Staffers tend to mimic their bosses, to take their key from them.

He was experienced enough to spot the downside of doing the right thing.

The author defines professionalism as exemplified by his subjects in their mutual unwillingness to take....

The author deduces the best way James Baker serve Reagan as Chief of Staff was to continually remind....

The author, at the time a Carter speechwriter in the 1980 campaign, showed visible distress at his boss's....

He was making the inevitable pivot from critic to manager.

The Russian people were just like us. They were victims of their own government. Ronald Reagan

He'd made a name for himself out there in the world beyond not just in spite of the distinctly unfashionable....

Shared history was the coin of the realm.