Question

Who is reported as saying "We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today"?

Answer 1

Henry Ford
The quote is from an 1916 interview Ford gave for the Chicago Tribune, and follows the part of the interview where he also said "What do we care about what they did 500 or 1,000 years ago? I don't know whether Napoleon did or did not try to get across and I don't care. It means nothing to me. History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. "