The murder of Lumumba, in which the U.S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa's major hope for development. Congo is now total horror story, for years.
Radical Islamist extremists surely hope that an attack on Iraq will kill many people and destroy much of the country, providing recruits for terrorist actions.
I filed the first gay rights bill in Massachusetts history in 1972 in the legislature, one of the first in the country.
Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.
Nixon's full term was one of the most successful in U.S. history, which is why he was re-elected by the largest plurality in the country's history.
I don't think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that's now history.
I would also argue... that we are, by inclination and in terms of our history, we are small 'l' liberals, we Canadians.
Marxism conceives of the new system of socialism as the necessary outcome of all previous history made possible and necessary only by that previous history.
America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.
During the 1990s, San Francisco lived through one of the most intense economic booms of its history.
The reform process began with the historic consensus on the Charter of National Action, in which the Bahraini people decided on a new chapter of their history.
In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine.
In capitalist history, invasion and class struggle are not opposites, as the official legend would have us believe, but one is the means and the expression of the other.
A continuing narrative throughout Australia's history that says it is better to build up than to tear down - this is the continuing mission of Labor.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'
Proper history teaching is being crushed under the weight of play-based pedagogy which infantilises children, teachers and our culture.
From tea parties to the election in Massachusetts, we are witnessing the single greatest political pushback in American history.
I am privileged to be a citizen of the single greatest society in all of human history.
The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
Was it not enough punishment and suffering in history that we were uprooted and made helpless slaves not only in new colonial outposts but also domestically.
To me, Cary Grant is probably the most fashionable man in the history of Hollywood. The guy was just slick. He did it so effortlessly.
