But he [Franklin Roosevelt] specifically prohibits any black participation from the Deep South, something which just infuriates people who'd been his…

- Geoffrey Cowan

So, in Kennedy's case, he was a Catholic. And people thought after the Al Smith election and so forth that a Catholic couldn't win in the United Stat…

- Geoffrey Cowan

And of course, in the case of Barack Obama, had he not won primaries - and particularly the heavily important caucus in Iowa - if the public hadn't s…

- Geoffrey Cowan

When he [Franklin Roosevelt] ultimately does not get the Republican Party nomination and decides to start his new Bull Moose Party, he does, for the …

- Geoffrey Cowan

The reverse is a system in which you basically let people who were leaders in one way or another - people sometimes decried as party bosses, people w…

- Geoffrey Cowan

You know, the primary process itself is very confusing. But in the end, I guess I believe what Winston Churchill said, which is that democracy is the…

- Geoffrey Cowan

Reagan, people claimed, was too old to run for president and to be elected. But he proved himself such a vigorous campaigner in the primary system th…

- Geoffrey Cowan

To picture Roosevelt as a man at this time in his life - he felt he was old. He was 53 years old, feeling lonely and irrelevant. And all of a sudden,…

- Geoffrey Cowan

I think Roosevelt proves himself to be the ultimate political force in this book. He really wasn't for primaries until he realized it was the only wa…

- Geoffrey Cowan