This is the greatest society in all of human history, the greatest country ever. Many of the decisions being made in Washington today by both parties are threatening that greatness. And if we stay on this road we're on right now, our children are goi...
You know, when we get to a point in this country where dissent is extremism, we've turned, I think, a very dark page in our history. And I don't want us to go there. I encourage Americans and I'm - right now, to go to these town hall meetings, to - t...
In the early 1970s in Atlanta, I attended what had formerly been an all-white school but had become a black school after integration and white flight. Perhaps because of this, the teachers created a curriculum that included a focus on African America...
Looking at America's history, ordinary people did something extraordinary. Leaders risked their lives for freedoms that we take for granted today. That's what instills confidence. That's us. We will move forward and prosper because that's who we are ...
It was OK for the media to pursue Former President Clinton year after year for lying about a private, consensual sexual affair, but we have five justices who committed one of the biggest crimes in American History, and it ceased to be a big story.
Richard Nixon had a kind of Walter Mitty fantasy life. He was a man with a grandiose thoughts: dreams of not simply being president but maybe becoming one of the truly great presidents of American history.
Mention the name George W. Bush in mixed company, and you're likely to spark a lot of debate and emotion - hot and cold, good and bad. Not a lot of neutral reaction. He was elected in the most controversial contest in American electoral history and g...
Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Now that's so deep in history that there's no point even bringing i...
My ideal man is Benjamin Franklin—the figure in American history most worthy of emulation ... Franklin is my ideal of a whole man. ... Where are the life-size—or even pint-size—Benjamin Franklins of today?
History is just one fucking thing after another.
We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.
Every body has role to play in the history of the world.
Who will remember Anna Wintour in the history of fashion? No one.
Jeff Bridges is one of my favorite actors in the history of ever.
I almost failed drama at school. I hated it. It was all about the history of theatre.
History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
Nothing is insignificant in the history of a young community, and - above all - nothing seems impossible.
The history of apartheid-era South Africa is incredibly sad and at times infuriatingly incomprehensible.
I want to write a book which is the history of comedy.
A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.
I was the highest-paid street performer, probably, in the history of Chicago. I was making like $800 a day.
