The liberal left can be as rigid and destructive as any force in American life. — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
Journalism talk is part of the nonstop background noise of American life. — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
I'm a 1960 baby, and since I can recall, football has been like this. It's been a more important, more substantial part… — Oliver Luck Copy Share Image
sometimes i wish i'd been an englishman; american life is so damned dumb and stupid and healthy — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The Holocaust only emerged in American life after Israel's victory in the 1967 Six Day war against its Arab neighbours. — Norman Finkelstein Copy Share Image
A British director directed 'American Beauty,' an important film about American life, and it didn't matter. What only mattered was everyone's sensibility. — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
Year by year we are learning that in this restless, strenuous American life of ours vacations are essential. — Ellsworth Huntington Copy Share Image
American life, in large cities, is a perpetual assault on the senses and the nerves; it is out of asceticism, out of… — Joseph McCarthy Copy Share Image
I love stories that give me a perspective on how easy American life has become in the 21st century. — Hope Davis Copy Share Image
As long as we rationalize nuclear weapons as "necessary" in order to save American lives, then nuclear weapons will never be gotten… — Bernard Lown Copy Share Image
We are saving American lives every single day. The court system has not made it easy for us. We've even created a… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
“As God was expunged from American life, idols came in to fill the void; idols of sensuality, idols of greed, of money,… — Jonathan Cahn Copy Share Image
American life is a powerful solvent. It seems to neutralize every intellectual element, however tough and alien it may be, and to… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The Clinton tax increase - which was an increase in taxes primarily on upper-income people - not only made the tax code… — Barney Frank Copy Share Image
The death of anti-gay hate speech is no doubt being hastened by the head-spinning speed with which gays as a group -… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
Now I would say at any given moment in American life, there are probably 45 poets in airplanes vectoring across the country… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
I came in the gate as an African-American poor kid wanting to be a neurosurgeon but - with American life and the… — Lil B Copy Share Image
To the European immigrant - that is, to the aliens who have been converted into Americans by the advantages of American life… — Herbert Croly Copy Share Image
Institutional Christianity has had clear secular benefits to American life for hundreds of years. It's played both a prophetic role in terms… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
Serious skeptics, true believers, and seekers of every stripe will want to read Mitch Horowitz's vibrant, probing, and richly researched account of… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
I think there are a lot of people who are involved in the Tea Party who have very real and sincere concerns… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
A triumphalist corporate capitalism, free at last of the specter of Communism, has mobilized its economic power to relentlessly marginalize all nonmarket… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
'Lean on Pete' is the story of a boy and his horse, but it is never heart-warming - it ranges in tone… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
It is a commonplace of American life that immigrants have made our country great and continue to make a very important contribution… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
“Well, my friend, if I may be blunt, all this time you have talked about how you walked away from your American… — Van Heerling Copy Share Image
Lincoln is such an iconic figure in American history. He seems to reflect so many elements of American culture that we consider… — Eric Foner Copy Share Image
“With each surge of westward movement a new community came into being. These communities devoted themselves not to marching onward but to… — Henry Nash Smith Copy Share Image
“Driving a hybrid car could save about one ton of carbon-dioxide emissions per year but adopting a plant-based diet would save nearly… — Gene Stone Copy Share Image
“Progressivism was imported from Europe and would result in a radical break from America’s heritage. In fact, it is best described as… — Mark R. Levin Copy Share Image
“When we finally achieve the full right of participation in American life, what we make of it will depend upon our sense… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
“Can it be that the ultimate chapter of this new era of democratic freedom is going to be deformed by this growing… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
“Though we could always explain that our life was not as glamorous as it might seem in the telling, we did come… — Megan Rich Copy Share Image
“There were good men in Afghanistan, men like those who made up our Afghan force, but most were mired in ancient traditions… — Mark L. Donald Copy Share Image
“Many historians have noted an interesting phenomenon in American life in the years immediately after a war. In the councils of government… — E.L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
The death of JFK to the resignation of Richard Nixon marked a great turning point in American life. — Pierre Salinger Copy Share Image
I believe we are being dishonest with language minority groups if we tell them they can take full part in American life… — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
There is a paranoid streak in American life. Radio talk show hosts tend to foment that paranoid streak in American life. — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
If you are black, the only roads into the mainland of American life are through subservience, cowardice, and loss of manhood. These… — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
