If the 14th Amendment represents the struggle to build inclusive models of national identity untethered from racial caste or classification, then Trump… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
What joins the Americans one to another is not a common ancestry, language or race, but a shared work of the imagination… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
Just several years ago, Shaykh Kabbani, who is the head of the Islamic Supreme Council of America, when he was speaking at… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Motivated more by partisan politics than by national security, today's Democratic leaders see America as an occupier, not a liberator. And nothing… — Zell Miller Copy Share Image
Basically with the financing of the war economy America emerged as the great power that developed logically into a superpower. I am… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“The Americans are very patriotic, and wish to make their new citizens patriotic Americans. But it is the idea of making a… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
One of the things that we're missing from our political dialogue right now is the idea that the United States is a… — Stephen Miller Copy Share Image
That morning of 11 September 2001, as we watched the twin towers crumble on live television, America and I would develop a… — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share Image
The way music reflects real life, the way that painstakingly, over the years, what I have said is really a metaphor for… — Immortal Technique Copy Share Image
If the ordinary wage-earner worked four hours a day, there would be enough for everybody and no unemployment -- assuming a certain… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The poverty one still sees in America today is more shocking to me than anything I have seen in Ethiopia or Calcutta… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Homosexuals now pervade and control American government at every level and branch. Thus, only those churches that support and promote the militant… — Fred Phelps Copy Share Image
My fellow citizens, our nation is poised for greatness. We must do what we know is right, and do it with all… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The split in America, rather than simply economic, is between those who embrace reason, who function in the real world of cause… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
There's the phrase of 'making America great again,' but how did we make America great? Who did it? It was Thurgood Marshall… — Chadwick Boseman Copy Share Image
Universal coverage is a critical goal, but even if every man and woman, every parent and every child in America woke up… — Danny K. Davis Copy Share Image
They're people who probably imagine that they would have had a better time in the past. I wouldn't imagine you'd encounter a… — Christine Jennings Copy Share Image
This national argument is usually interpreted as a battle between imperialists led by Roosevelt and Lodge and anti-imperialists led by William Jennings… — William Appleman Williams Copy Share Image
One of the most insidious consequences of the present burden of personal income tax is that it strips many middle class families… — William Henry Chamberlin Copy Share Image
Our founding fathers detested the idea of a democracy and labored long to prevent America becoming one. Once again - the word… — Neal Boortz Copy Share Image
“Koch believed that what the famed economist Joseph Schumpeter called "creative destruction" was so critical to the health of the capitalist system… — Nancy MacLean Copy Share Image
I think that if most guys in America could somehow get their fave-rave poster girl in bed and have total license to… — Lester Bangs Copy Share Image
“His people had hogs there till the bottom fell out of hogs. The bottom was always falling out of something in America… — Sebastian Barry Copy Share Image
America's great talent, I think, is to generate desires that would never have occurred, natively,... and to make those desires so painfully… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
Any nation that expects to be ignorant and free," Jefferson said, "expects what never was and never will be." And if the… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
The failure of the family court system in America is a national scandal. Sadly, the mainstream media, whether out of ignorance or… — Garland Waller Copy Share Image
I was planning on writing a detailed review of several books on web security tonight, but the Obama collapse has superseded my… — Charles Foster Johnson Copy Share Image
There's also consumer debt, the credit card debt that burdens many of the working families in America. Yes, we talk about national… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
In my early teens, I read every bound volume of the magazine Punch. Every writer of any distinction in the English language,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
America is an open society, more open than any other in the world. People of every race, of every color, of every… — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
If religious freedom is to endure in America, the responsibility for teaching religion to public school children must be left to the… — Sam Ervin Copy Share Image
If President Obama has his way, you won't recognize the government, the free market system, or, frankly, America as you once knew… — Bob Ehrlich Copy Share Image
I've heard it said that those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it. To that end, I think it's worth… — Steve Stoute Copy Share Image
Whatever new threats and challenges may emerge, our nation will be able to face them squarely, deal with them, and yet allow… — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share Image
People can say whatever they want about you without knowing the facts. They can criticize you without even knowing you, and hate… — R. Kelly Copy Share Image
What is being black? It's making the most of your life, not taking a single moment for granted. Taking something that's seen… — John Mayer Copy Share Image
I remember when I was being told about Watergate, and I thought, "Oh, America is not what I think America is." But… — Eddie Izzard Copy Share Image
I think that we Americans, in particular, tend to think too directly about problems. If there's a problem we want to basically… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
“The degree of ignorance cannot easily be expressed. We may say, for instance, that nearly two-thirds of them cannot read or write.… — W.E.B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
