“If you think you have it tough, read history books.”– Bill Maher Related Quotes “I feel like I’m too busy writing history to read it.”– Kanye West “Nixon in 1968, unlike Obama 2008, was elected as a minority president with only 43 percent of the vote. Yet, in 1972, he won what, in some measures, was the most lopsided election in American history with 61 percent.”– John Podhoretz “The odds are always against you no matter what your previous history is. You have to overcome the tendency to relax.”– Tom Osborne