George H W Bush/presidency 1989%e2%80%931993

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    At length I heard a ragged noise and mirth
    Of thieves and murderers: there I him espied
    Who straight, Your suit is granted,said, and died.
    George Herbert (1593–1633)

    The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions .... You can argue yourself blue in the face, and you’re not going to change each other’s minds. It’s a waste of your time and my time.
    —Barbara Bush (b. 1925)

    ... how often the Presidency has simply meant that a man shall be abused, distrusted, and worked to death while he is filling the great office, and that he should drop into unmerited oblivion when he has left the White House ...
    M. E. W. Sherwood (1826–1903)