Team of Five Quotes

“When Harry Truman left office, in 1953, the only income he could rely on was a World War I veteran’s pension of about $110 a month. As president he had earned $75,000 a year during his first term and $100,000 during his second, which is more than $1 million in today’s dollars.”
― Kate Andersen Brower, Team of Five: The Presidents Club in the Age of Trump

“They grew so close, Carter said, that when they went to events together they rode in the same car, and “we kind of hate to get there,” because they enjoyed talking so much. They talked regularly on the phone, and in 2006, shortly before he passed away, Ford called Carter and said he had an important favor to ask his friend and fellow president: “Would you deliver the eulogy at my funeral?” Carter’s answer, of course, was yes, but only if he would do the same at his funeral. “A few months later,” Carter said, “I was grieved but honored to fulfill my promise.” Carter blushed at the memory and called their friendship “intimate and pure.”
― Kate Andersen Brower, Team of Five: The Presidents Club in the Age of Trump

“They grew so close, Carter said, that when they went to events together they rode in the same car, and “we kind of hate to get there,” because they enjoyed talking so much.”
― Kate Andersen Brower, Team of Five: The Presidents Club in the Age of Trump

“GERALD FORD AND JIMMY CARTER: “I WAS GRIEVED, BUT HONORED TO FULFILL MY PROMISE”
― Kate Andersen Brower, Team of Five: The Presidents Club in the Age of Trump

“RULE NO. 9: FAMILY COMES FIRST Nothing can ever be written that will drive a wedge between us—nothing at all. —George H. W. Bush, in a 1998 letter to his sons George W. and Jeb”
― Kate Andersen Brower, Team of Five: The Presidents Club in the Age of Trump

“RULE NO. 8: GIVE BACK With each decision throughout life we shape our own character and destiny by making the basic choice: “This is the kind of person I want to be.” —Jimmy Carter”
― Kate Andersen Brower, Team of Five: The Presidents Club in the Age of Trump

“RULE NO. 7: TREASURE “THE MOST PERFECT HOUSE IN THE UNITED STATES” You cannot walk in those old rooms without feeling or hearing the footsteps of those who have gone before you. —Richard Nixon”
― Kate Andersen Brower, Team of Five: The Presidents Club in the Age of Trump

“RULE NO. 6: COME TOGETHER FOR CELEBRATIONS Though we hail from different backgrounds and ideologies, we’re singularly unique, even eternally bound, by our common devotion and service to this wonderful country. —George H. W. Bush”
― Kate Andersen Brower, Team of Five: The Presidents Club in the Age of Trump

“RULE NO. 5: UNITE IN TRAGEDY To paraphrase Mr. Jefferson: We are all Democrats, we are all Republicans, because we are all Americans. —Ronald Reagan”
― Kate Andersen Brower, Team of Five: The Presidents Club in the Age of Trump

“RULE NO. 4: DON’T BE TOO PROUD TO ASK FOR HELP No one knows how rough this job is until after he has been in it a few months. —John F. Kennedy”
― Kate Andersen Brower, Team of Five: The Presidents Club in the Age of Trump

“RULE NO. 3: AVOID CRITICIZING THE SITTING PRESIDENT AT ALL COSTS Stay the hell out of Dodge. —George H. W. Bush”
― Kate Andersen Brower, Team of Five: The Presidents Club in the Age of Trump

“RULE NO. 2: RESPECT THE OFFICE AND ONE ANOTHER There’s a reverence there for that office that is independent of you, and if you don’t feel that you shouldn’t be there. —Barack Obama”
― Kate Andersen Brower, Team of Five: The Presidents Club in the Age of Trump

“RULE NO. 1: HONOR A SHARED HISTORY I always loved Jefferson, and still love him. —John Adams”
― Kate Andersen Brower, Team of Five: The Presidents Club in the Age of Trump

“Back in Washington, he needed to find a place to golf. After some members of the predominantly Jewish Woodmont Country Club outside of D.C. tried to block him from joining because they said he was not supportive enough of the Jewish state, he joined the Columbia Country Club in Chevy Chase instead, where he can frequently be found playing golf. He”
― Kate Andersen Brower, Team of Five: The Presidents Club in the Age of Trump

“The Internet is a brutal place these days for political figures, because there’s a high degree of anonymity, there’s no personal responsibility whatsoever, people can say whatever they want to say and it becomes currency,”
― Kate Andersen Brower, Team of Five: The Presidents Club in the Age of Trump

“them from deportation with the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA. At a”
― Kate Andersen Brower, Team of Five: The Presidents Club in the Age of Trump