Let me say that I think the economic history of the last 150 years clearly shows that if you want to industrialize a country in a short period, let us say 20 years, and you don't have a well-developed private sector, entrepreneurial class, then centr...
Protectionism is a very real danger. It is understandable that in times of a severe downturn protectionist pressures mount but the lessons of history are clear. If we give in to protectionist pressures, we will only send the world into a downward spi...
Harlem is not a playground for rich bankers and consultants. It's got students of all colors. It's got old people who keep history and tell tall tales.
When I began to act, I was about 6 years old. Everything you learned, every period of history you studied, you did a play about it.
I read daft history books. Sometimes the books I read are a bit crackers or strange.
If you look back at history, the various Maharajas of the Indian empire actually helped support a whole British industry. The royalty in those days ordered exotic cars in huge numbers.
In the 2004 presidential election, we saw a wonderful example of citizens making contributions. In fact, individual giving to both the Kerry and Bush campaigns was the highest in our nation's history.
Factory farming, like comparable evils throughout history, depends for its existence upon concealment. It depends on people either not noticing or willfully averting their gaze.
Of history, how little do we know by personal contact; we have lived a few years, seen a few men, witnessed some important events; but what are these in the whole sum of the world's past.
Human history is highly nonlinear and unpredictable.
The history of agriculture is the history of humans breeding seeds and animals to produce traits we want in our crops and livestock.
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...
Authors want their names down in history; I want to keep the smoke coming out of the chimney.
Over the course of history, the people who are not scared go into the woods and are mauled by a bear, are not going to survive.
Countries and places have a history, a story, and a culture.
A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.
Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.
What Britain needs is an iron lady.
Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.
I have become aware on my travels that when a country loses the connection between its history and its traditional dress, something truly precious is lost.
The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
