“If the incumbent or his party has been discredited sufficiently, the c...” — H. W. Brands Quote

“If the incumbent or his party has been discredited sufficiently, the challenger can run a successful, content-free campaign.”

“The historic dearth of labor was perhaps the central feature of the American economy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.”

“Every year, I have my graduate students read the great works of history, from classical times to the present. They gamely tackle Tacitus, ponder Plutarch, plow through Gibbon. Then they get to Thomas Carlyle and feel like Dorothy when she touched down in Technicolor Oz.”

“My first guitar was a Gibson Challenger.”

“I spend my money on cars. That's why I have a Challenger. It's a muscle car, like a Mustang. It's big and rumbly.”

“I don't think of us as defending ourselves. I think of us as a challenger, an attacker.”