If there were 10,000 U.S. forces ashore [in Lebanon], authorized to move about, there would be less risk to American lives than… — George Will Copy Share Image
President Obama and members of his administration constantly express rage and anger over events totally within their control. It's an odd and… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
The final test of Afro-American studies will be the extent to which they rid the minds of whites and blacks alike of… — Jay Saunders Redding Copy Share Image
Julie Orringer is the real thing, a breathtaking chronicler of the secrets and cruelties underneath the surface of middle-class American life. These… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
It's a curious thing in American life that the most abject nonsense will be excused if the utterer can claim the sanction… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
For me, New Jersey is kind of a mythical place. It's emblematic of a certain aspect of American life. Florida is the… — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
To a generation beaten down by skyrocketing unemployment, plunging retirement savings, and mounting home foreclosures, 'Mad Men' offers the schadenfreude-filled message that… — Adam Cohen Copy Share Image
Vanity Fair has but two major articles in its editorial creed: first, to believe in the progress and promise of American life,… — Frank Crowninshield Copy Share Image
Looking back over a decade one sees the ideal of a university become a myth, a vision, a meadow lark among the… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“The country no longer felt like the innocent place it was said to be in the Eisenhower fifties. Political murder, economic injustice… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
Illiberal left ideology has its greatest strength on campuses because campuses are one of the few places in American life where a… — Jonathan Chait Copy Share Image
We urgently need a debate about the best ways of supporting families in modern America, without blinders that prevent us from seeing… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
“For the primary goal of the American Revolution which transferred American life and introduced a new era in human history, was not… — Bernard Bailyn Copy Share Image
Media is so weird; everything is so accessible now. It used to be this thing where, if you did something on 'This… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
I think a playful critique is good for all of us, and that's basically how I see satire functioning. But I'm not… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
One of the manifestations of depression for me is that I lose my will. And I thereby lose my ability to focus.… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
Chelsea Manning's treachery put American lives at risk and exposed some of our nation's most sensitive secrets. President Obama now leaves in… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
“The notion that the intense and unprecedented mixture of ethnic and religious groups in American life was soon to blend into a… — David L. Sills Copy Share Image
As Americans, we want peace - we work and sacrifice for peace. But there can be no peace if our security depends… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Really what it gets down to is that my idea of the American life, the American dream, whatever, is that I can… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
The rarest of all things in American life is charm. We spend billions every year manufacturing fake charm that goes under the… — Anita Loos Copy Share Image
The 'global warming scare' is being used as a political tool to increase government control over American lives, incomes and decision making.… — Harrison Schmitt Copy Share Image
Hughes' debut novel, At Dawn, follows a former All-American wrestler, and is there any better metaphor for contemporary American life? We're all… — Joshua Mohr Copy Share Image
Within the world of TV land, into which American life has been reduced as well as reproduced, the phenomenon of the talk… — Patricia J. Williams 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
By the end of the third decade of this century, all of American life - politics, international relations, our homes, our jobs,… — Joseph J. Romm Copy Share Image
I think the name of the show, 'This American Life' - we named it that just because it seemed like it made… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the… — Crowfoot Copy Share Image
We cannot allow the defense of American lives to be held hostage by the United Nations -- which has already given Saddam… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The corporations have taken over. Even in the recording studio. Actually, the corporate companies have taken over American life most everywhere. Go… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
You know, I began my life as a creative person writing true things for magazines and telling some very honest, straightforward personal… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
'We Were the Mulvaneys' is perhaps the novel closest to my heart. I think of it as a valentine to a passing… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
An absolutely devastating ridicule of all that is false, primitive, and vicious in current American life: the abuses of power, hero worship,… — Terry Southern Copy Share Image
The individualism of American life, to our glory and despair, creates anger and encourages its release; for when everything is possible, limitations… — Carol Tavris Copy Share Image
I certainly do have this feeling of affection for the absolute sense of intellectual freedom that exists as a live nerve, a… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
There is tremendous long-term harm when Americans accept ethnic and class balkanization as a de facto fixture of American life. I think… — Richard Benjamin Copy Share Image
People are interested in pro football because it provides them with an emotional oasis; they don't want football to get involved in… — Pete Rozelle Copy Share Image
The further jazz moves away from the stark blue continuum and the collective realities of Afro-American and American life, the more it… — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
American life is builded ... upon that fundamental philosophy announced by the Savior nineteen centuries ago ... [It] can not survive with… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
To discriminate against a thoroughly upright citizen because he belongs to some particular church, or because, like Abraham Lincoln, he has not… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
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