What I'm passionate about is History, and politics interest me only insofar as it is the cross-section of History in the present.
Covering a historic event is perfectly legitimate. It's not sneaking into somebody's boudoir... These people belong to history, and not to record that if you have the opportunity would be wrong.
African history is filled with experiences of people shooting their way to power and then splintering into factions, like in Somalia and Liberia.
The doctrine of preemption has a long and distinguished history in the history of American foreign policy.
Systematic philosophical and practical anti-intellectualism such as we are witnessing appears to be something truly novel in the history of human culture.
Clarence Darrow, America's best-known trial lawyer, was also one of American history's most skilled orators.
One thing I've learned over these last 30 or 40 years is that people make history. There's no fait accompli to any of this.
To people who remember JFK's assassination, JFK Jr. will probably always be that boy saluting his father's coffin.
I'm a Larry David fan, right? And it seems to me that Jewish history from the Talmud on has been a self-deprecating, self-critical kind of humor.
Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium.
For style and for creating a mood of optimism and hope - Kennedy on that count is as effective as any president the country has had in its history.
I arrived from Harvard, where I had studied philosophy and the history of ideas, with a bias toward literature and formal thought.
Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price.
From the very beginning, history wasn't content simply to be nostalgic fairytales; it wanted to make you think.
My history writing was based on what I saw in strange, exotic places rather than just reading books.
We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.
More and more people are seeing the films on computers - lousy sound, lousy picture - and they think they've seen the film, but they really haven't.
Yes, my grandfather worked with Thomas Edison on the electric car, and he sold electric cars at the 1900 World's Fair in Paris.
So for a year I spent all my time hiding from Jack Charlton in the car park practising my skills.
'Cars' is a really personal story for me because, first of all, I grew up in Los Angeles - the car crazy capital.
Design can never be an ultimate explanation for anything. It can only be a proximate explanation. A plane or a car is explained by a designer but that's because the designer himself, the engineer, is explained by natural selection.
