One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American… — Henry James Copy Share Image
The perception of linked fate and that feeling of being always on the spot as a representative of the race, at least… — Randall Kennedy Copy Share Image
Donald Trump wants to make it clear to the American people that, while Hillary Clinton is committed to open borders, and amnesty,… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
There is one expanding horror in American life. It is that our long odyssey toward liberty, democracy and freedom-for-all may be achieved… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
This very individualistic form of Protestant Christianity that became so basic in English and then American life is to a large degree… — Walter Russell Mead Copy Share Image
“If you want to be original, “the most important possible thing you could do,” says Ira Glass, the producer of This American… — Adam M. Grant Copy Share Image
If you're a progressive, you believe every American deserves safe, decent, and affordable housing, and there's no institution in American life more… — Ritchie Torres Copy Share Image
You can do pretty much anything you want to do in America as a black, including become president. Still, the legacy of… — Shelby Steele 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
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
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
'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
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
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
“Sketches Einstein: His Life and Universe A Benjamin Franklin Reader Benjamin Franklin: An American Life Kissinger: A Biography The Wise Men: Six… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
I got out of school in 2000, and I always wanted to be on 'This American Life,' since I first started telling… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
In the homes of America are born the children of America; and from them go out into American life, American men and… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
Justified or not, the Supreme Court has a kind of sacred status in American life. For whatever reason, Presidents can safely run… — Jon Meacham 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
'Hamilton' and 'Shuffle Along' are closely connected because the ensembles are all friends, and they both deal with historical figures and the… — Brandon Victor Dixon Copy Share Image
Our families and our homes are the center of American life, Everything we do is to make those homes-and the lives in… — Martha Stewart Copy Share Image
The English Language Amendment says above all, 'Let's see to it that our children, our young people, learn English. Let us not… — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
“A MAIN ARGUMENT of this book concerns how so many parts of American life have morphed into forms of entertainment. From 1980… — Kurt Andersen Copy Share Image
There is a rowdy strain in American life, living close to the surface but running very deep. Like an ape behind a… — Bruce Catton 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
Hippy is an establishment label for a profound, invisible, underground, evolutionary process. For every visible hippy, barefoot, beflowered, beaded, there are a… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
Income taxes are responsible for the transformation of the Federal government from one of limited powers into a vast leviathan whose tentacles… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
It was as if the sensory overload that is American life had somehow led to sensory deprivation, a gilded weariness, where everything… — J. Maarten Troost Copy Share Image
The one thing I've learned, getting out to all those foreign and domestic locales, is that people in every country of the… — Wolfman Jack Copy Share Image
Through the 1980s and '90s, evangelicals sought to turn back the forces of secularization. Groups like the Moral Majority and the Christian… — Josh Hawley Copy Share Image
The quality of American life is an insult to the possibilities of human growth... the pollution of American space, with gadgetry and… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I'm a Yugoslavian who loves America - my kids are Americans, you know. They're always going to be half and half because… — Vlade Divac Copy Share Image
If you live close to an International Rescue Committee office in the United States, find out how you can assist a refugee… — Mandy Patinkin Copy Share Image
Immigration law doesn't exist for the purpose of keeping criminals out. It exists to protect all aspects of American life. The work… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Today's secular libertarians, who want to remove biblical religion from public life, have trouble making sense of the civil rights movement because… — Bruce L. Shelley Copy Share Image
“The world of tricky-tacky boxes, defined social behaviour, untrammeled egotism, sexism and material acquisitiveness, all powered by insecurity that passes for security,… — Geoff Mains Copy Share Image
There is the issue of security. Countless innocent American lives have been stolen because our politicians have failed in their duty to… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
