I am interested in constitutional history, political…

Events are the ephemera of history; they pass across its stage like fireflies, hardly glimpsed before they settle back into darkness and as often…

— Fernand Braudel

There's nothing like having a history with someone, when you're in a foreign land.

— Catherine O'Hara

I think people are confused about what the Tea Party is. I mean, they were a broad cross-section of Americans who came together concerned…

— Jim DeMint

Our plan will not favor religious institutions over nonreligious institutions. As president, I'm interested in what is constitutional and I'm interested in what works.

— George W. Bush

The grand sweep of constitutional or political history is important, but a detailed history of daily life also gives you a wonderful insight into…

— Lucy Worsley

There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is…

— Karl Popper

“In truth, the history of political thought is an end in itself, the highest peak of political education. The crowning achievement of political knowledge,…

— Robert Nandor Berki

We can look at history and see that [political turmoil is] fertile ground for art.

— Morgan Parker

The truth is that a lot of plays aren't political at all. In American theater history, political theater has tended to crop up when…

— Frank Rich

I wanted to be a part of history and not just a recorder and teacher of history. So that kind of attitude towards history,…

— Howard Zinn

History should be to the political economist a wellspring of experience and wisdom.

— Edward Gibbon

I've been there for so many crossroads in American history. My whole political life spans the birth of the environmental movement, the women's movement,…

— Barbara Boxer

On the eve of the Civil War, James Parton could write that 'the political history of the United States, for the last thirty years,…

— James Parton

Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical fears and hopes

— Murray Edelman

“The political history of the twentieth century is the story of greater and more direct political participation. And success kept expanding democracy's scope. Whatever…

— Fareed Zakaria