History Quotes

Let's make a deal with the Serbs. Neither history nor emotion in the Balkans will permit multinationalism. We have to give up on the illusion of the last eight years... Dayton isn't working. Nobody - except diplomats and petty officials - believes in...

Franjo Tudjman

So if you look back over the long history of China, they've never tried to take over the world, but they've been quite aggressive in their own neighborhood... in carrying out their own purposes and interests in their sphere of the world.

Fred Thompson

This is not a country that has had a tremendous sympathy for poor people, so I think that the notion that somehow we have slipped into an era in which poor people don't matter is not quite the way our history would define it.

Faye Wattleton

The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But it's a joke, a blot on American history.

Frank Waters

It's a major part of world history that men are trying to kill each other. It's just one slaughter after the other. We talk about it, but no one's really listening.

Fred Ward

Cleveland is my hometown, and the Indians have a narrow but rich history.

Fred Willard

A political theory seeks to find from history the limits of the politically possible.

Francis Parker Yockey

There's a difference between knowing what's on the page in a history book and actually feeling that page have curves and valleys.

Garth Brooks

The greatest concubines in history knew that everything revealed with nothing concealed is a bore.

Geoffrey Beene

But let me tell you, this gender thing is history. You're looking at a guy who sat down with Margaret Thatcher across the table and talked about serious issues.

George H. W. Bush

History will point out some of the things I did wrong and some of the things I did right.

George H. W. Bush

Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history - revisionist historians is what I like to call them.

George W. Bush

The true history of my administration will be written 50 years from now, and you and I will not be around to see it.

George W. Bush

I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way.

George W. Bush

Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us.

George W. Bush

Natural Texas politicians make terrible, terrible presidential candidates. Phil Gramm, I remember the 'Phil Gramm for President' campaign. I thought that was the worst thing in the history of the world, but Rick Perry was possibly worse.

Gail Collins

You have Extreme and Van Halen and the history that I have with other people I played with. There are some effects that will hopefully break that stereotype.

Gary Cherone

I have a little history. I met Stone Temple Pilots, and their guitar player was a huge Extreme fan. Somewhere down the road, Extreme made its statement.

Gary Cherone

Over the years, over the history of our country, liberals have stood on many of the right sides of the issues.

George Clooney

America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.

Georges Clemenceau

While we read history we make history.

George William Curtis