Enhanced interrogation gleaned information that saved American lives and - I was informed - prevented incoming terrorist attacks on this country from… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
We have to be honest, we have to be truthful and speak to the one dirty secret in American life, and that… — Henry Cisneros Copy Share Image
Country music has become the music that best represents the reality of American life. — Brad Paisley Copy Share Image
There is a lot in American politics (and in American life) that is angry, greedy, reckless and violent. — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
There are criminal aliens in this country who have come into this country who are perpetrating violence and taking American lives. — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
The Jews integrated themselves into American life to the point that the argument that the Jews aren't American sounded so stupid, that… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
West Indian cultural mentality and a North American life equals the perfect balance. — Melanie Fiona Copy Share Image
“Without monstrous distortions, I was slowly learning, without lies and hypocrisy, one cannot have the idealized American life I so longed for.” — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
The American Legion has been a cornerstone of American life from the local to the federal level since the beginning, and serves… — Mike Braun Copy Share Image
Primarily, we need to change 100 years of thinking, where we try to extend the promise of American life by moving things… — Lamar Alexander Copy Share Image
Although the Jeffersonian Law ("All men are created equal") is the first article of the American faith, the facts of American life… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
The great and invigorating influences in American life have been the unorthodox: the people who challenge an existing institution or way of… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
. . . what happened, of course, was that I was writing a play set in the 1940's that was supposed to… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
That does not mean we won't experience the tragedy of the loss of some American lives. We will have an opportunity to… — John McCain Copy Share Image
In such places as Greenwich Village, a menage-a-trois was completed- the bohemian and the juvenile delinquent came face-to-face with the Negro, and… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
There is not one text reference to characteristic Protestant religious life in these books... The dominant theme is the denial of religion… — Paul Vitz Copy Share Image
Obama said, 'Now let me be clear, issues of women's equality are by no means simply an issue for Islam.' No, he… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
The government of the United States, under Lyndon Johnson, proposes to concern itself over the quality of American life. And this is… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
“One of the greatest paradoxes of the Black Power movement was that it talked unceasingly about not imitating the values of white… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
“First, fidelity. The dictionary defines fidelity as a strict and continuing faithfulness to an obligation, trust, or duty. To my mind, that… — Historica Press Copy Share Image
“In the wake of World War II, most Democrats and liberals claimed that if justice could be done and was not, only… — Cal Jillson Copy Share Image
“The 1920s was a great time for reading altogether—very possibly the peak decade for reading in American life. Soon it would be… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
In the decade of the 1980s, a massive and comprehensive study of religion in American life was undertaken by the Gallup organization.… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
“Tocqueville saw that the life of constant action and decision which was entailed by the democratic and businesslike character of American life… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
“In truth, the U.S.-sponsored international “War on Drugs” is a war on poor people, most of them subsistence farmers caught in a… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“In our personal lives, we can seek to align our behavior with our values. We can live more simply, at once reducing… — John C. Ryan Copy Share Image
“It is often a puzzle for foreigners why the United States has such a dismal performance when it comes to murder, guns,… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
“Everything said about Gen Xers--both positive and negative--was completely true. Twenty-somethings in the nineties rejected the traditional working-class American lifestyle because (a)… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
“Within sixty-minute limits or one-hundred-yard limits or the limits of a game board, we can look for perfect moments or perfect structures.… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“[M]ost Americans are still drawing some water from the Christian well. But a growing number are inventing their own versions of what… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
“American culture quite naturally provides these ideological supports to those it favors and elects as fellow participants in the social and psychological… — Robert Kegan Copy Share Image
I was saying to Paul Schrader that he missed the idealism and the passion of that era in Hollywood, but also in… — Margot Kidder Copy Share Image
War is one of the nation's most honored virtues, and its militaristic values now bear down on almost every aspect of American… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
I'm convinced in 100 years Obama will have an important place in the civic pantheon of American life. — Jonathan Chait Copy Share Image
I don't think American life requires you to be on Facebook. It does require you to have access to the Internet. — Ro Khanna Copy Share Image
You probably know me as a producer for 'This American Life', a top podcast in iTunes. — Chris Sacca Copy Share Image
Dad worked his entire career as an aviation technician. Mom was a legal secretary who became a teacher. We lived a simple… — Brian Sandoval Copy Share Image
If there's an enduring theme in my work, it's probably the effects of class on American life. — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
Self-centered indulgence, pride and a lack of shame over sin are now emblems of the American lifestyle. — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
I think President [Barack] Obama deeply underestimated the force of white supremacy in American life. — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image