I don't think I came out of anybody. I think I developed out of the influences I described in My Dark Places.… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating their fathers and trying to… — Malcolm Bradbury Copy Share Image
I don't know anything about American history or presidents. I don't know what tailgating is! I've never been to an Olive Garden! — Emma Watson Copy Share Image
The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the cold war, is that the engine of capitalism, the individual, is mightier… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
Clarence Darrow, America's best-known trial lawyer, was also one of American history's most skilled orators. — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
Throughout American history, there have been moments that call on us to meet the challenges of an uncertain world, and pay whatever… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I'll change the posture of our federal government from being one of the most anti-science administrations in American history to one that… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Some IMDB viewers complain that 'Beloved' should have been reclassifed as Horror... well, so should American history. — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
“The important thing to understand about American history, wrote Mr. Ibis, in his leather-bound journal, is that it is fictional, a charcoal-sketched… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
We must not falsely teach American history in our schools. We have a law requiring state textbook oversight to guard against frauds… — Mitch Daniels Copy Share Image
“In 2001, the Associated Press published a three-part investigation into the theft of black-owned land stretching back to the antebellum period. The… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Instead of being a page-turner, 'Moby-Dick' is a repository of American history and culture and the essentials of Western literature. The book… — Nathaniel Philbrick Copy Share Image
I'm not against knowing the history of white people in the U.S. - that's not the point. The point is that there's… — Luis J. Rodriguez Copy Share Image
I was first introduced to August Wilson in the 80s when Charles Dutton did Ma Rainey and James Earl Jones and Courtney… — Denzel Washington Copy Share Image
When I look at American history, I see how it has been driven by resistance and protest against a system that has… — Jamaal Bowman Copy Share Image
More people are on food stamps today because of Obamas policies than ever in history. I would like to be the best… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
“Thanks so much. I'm really enjoying the book. I've known a lot about Bali over my 37 years of going there ...… — Dr. Vivienne Kruger Copy Share Image
Adam Clayton Powell's entire political career has to be looked at in the entire context of the American history and the history… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Obamacare's not imploding. The main goal of Obamacare was two-fold. One was to cover the uninsured, of which we've covered 20 million,… — Jonathan Gruber Copy Share Image
“The Great Firewall (The Sonnet) 99% of the world's human rights violations are manufactured by the west, either directly or retrospectively. No… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“There is no small irony here: An administration which flaunted its intellectual superiority and its superior academic credentials made the most critical… — David Halberstam Copy Share Image
A dangerous thesis has taken hold among many in the GOP: that it might be better to lose the '06 election and… — Larry Sabato Copy Share Image
“Chebeague Island is the largest of the islands in Casco Bay, near Portland Maine. Everyone knew everybody else on the island, and… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One Copy Share Image
“While slaveowners worked vigorously to allow slaves only so much biblical teaching as to make them good, docile, submissive slaves, even the… — Joel McDurmon Copy Share Image
The takeover of Harvard in 1805 by the Unitarians is probably the most important intellectual event in American history - at least… — Samuel Blumenfeld Copy Share Image
I'm working on restoring a cabinet over the obstruction of Senate Democrats. It will be one of the great cabinets ever assembled… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Throughout American history, we have elected presidents who had not been honest man. Warren Harding, Richard Nixon, to some extent, Lyndon Johnson… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
It somehow became an article of faith on the right that Obama is the most extreme president in American history. Although, when… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Common decency demands that [NCAA athletes] should be paid, but the only way it will happen is the same way workers got… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
For being the largest generation in American history, the Millennial generation inspires a ridiculous degree of overgeneralization. — Ben Domenech Copy Share Image
I was right about one of the most significant issues in modern American history. I was the only one who was right… — Scott Ritter Copy Share Image
At no time within the last five-hundred years can one point to a single instance of the Negro as a race of… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
“Far from being marginalized, as is presently the case, nineteenth-century freethought was a social movement at the core of our national life.” — Fred Whitehead Copy Share Image
Tony Kaye is great with that kind of stuff. Up until American History X, he had only done commercials. — Ethan Suplee Copy Share Image
A President and his wise men can only propose; but Congress disposes. It is when President and Congress agree that American history… — Theodore White Copy Share Image
Let the record show, Black history is American history, and I look forward to sharing this rich history with my family, friends,… — Jasmine Crockett Copy Share Image
So many people of color who made major contributions to American history have been trapped in the purgatory of history. — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
If Martin Luther King were here he'd be very surprised at some of the sugar-coated versions of American history presented today. — Kwasi Kwarteng Copy Share Image
It was an injured worker finding a lawyer on a contingent fee in a little town in Texas that blew the top… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
Obama has been the single worst president in modern American history in dealing with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
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