A President and his wise men can only propose; but Congress disposes. It is when President and Congress agree that American history… — Theodore White Copy Share Image
Tony Kaye is great with that kind of stuff. Up until American History X, he had only done commercials. — Ethan Suplee Copy Share Image
I was right about one of the most significant issues in modern American history. I was the only one who was right… — Scott Ritter Copy Share Image
For being the largest generation in American history, the Millennial generation inspires a ridiculous degree of overgeneralization. — Ben Domenech Copy Share Image
Common decency demands that [NCAA athletes] should be paid, but the only way it will happen is the same way workers got… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
It somehow became an article of faith on the right that Obama is the most extreme president in American history. Although, when… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
American history and the history of baseball are bound up together: our racial politics can be described and traced through it. — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
The central fact of North American history is that there were fifteen British Colonies before 1776. Thirteen rebelled and two did not. — June Callwood Copy Share Image
Teaching ... particularly in the 1990s, teaching what is far and away the dumbest generation in American history, is the same as… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“Their behavior indicated that the stigma of being on welfare, which had been powerful throughout American history—even in the Depression—had lost some… — James T. Patterson Copy Share Image
When I look at American history and I look at what history means to me, I look at it as if it… — Kadir Nelson Copy Share Image
History teaches us no race, no people, no nation has ever been freed through cowardice, through cringing, through bowing and scraping, but… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
The use of torture on suspected terrorists after Sept. 11 has already earned a place in American history's hall of shame, alongside… — Jacob Weisberg Copy Share Image
I walked out of Spielberg's 'Lincoln' having such a thirst for more. It used such a microscopic albeit enormous event in American… — Jesse Johnson Copy Share Image
Today, everybody is more or less conscious of the total failure of the Cuban revolution to produce wealth, to produce a better… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
Do I feel any pressure as the most decorated Winter Olympian in American history? None at all. The only pressures that I… — Apolo Ohno Copy Share Image
One is astonished in the study of history at the recurrence of the idea that evil must be forgotten, distorted, skimmed over.… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
If you've been preached to, if you've been educated, if you've been raised to believe that America is the most racist, the… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“Despite the fact nonwhite people are disproportionately the victims of crime, the criminal justice system as a whole is disproportionately built on… — Christopher L. Hayes Copy Share Image
“On various occasions, especially in trying to think of western American history in the context of the worldwide history of colonialism, it… — Patricia Nelson Limerick Copy Share Image
“Vice President Cheney has been the most dangerous vice president we've had probably in American history. The idea he doesn't realize that… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
“Crimping or Shanghaiing was the act of kidnapping unsuspecting men to serve aboard ships usually destined to sail to the far east.… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One Copy Share Image
“The girl with the greyhound was an assistant lighting director for a musical comedy about American history, and she kept her poor… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The 80's in America were about building a better future here in America. We came into the generation dancing. We saw an… — Phil Mitchell Copy Share Image
I think one of the most pivotal moments in modern American history was Donald Trump's immediate withdraw from TPP. — Stephen K. Bannon Copy Share Image
The fault line in American history is now a dividing line in the election and it's changing the conversation. — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
American history contains much matter for pride and congratulation, and much matter for regret and humiliation. — Herbert Croly Copy Share Image
What's so interesting is taking kind of all these horror tropes and really finding black history and American history to layer on… — Misha Green Copy Share Image
We wonder if we will be the first generation in American history to leave our children with fewer opportunities and a less… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
Gore Vidal has been a friend of mine for years, and he's one of the greatest writers in American history. — Cybill Shepherd Copy Share Image
Boycotts have been a critical part of social justice in American history, particularly for African-Americans. — Stacey Abrams Copy Share Image
If you look throughout American history, it has been protests and mass movements and the people rising up that has moved to… — Jamaal Bowman Copy Share Image
Those that clamor loudest for Columbus to be erased from the pages of American history do so far more because of their… — Tom Tancredo Copy Share Image
I think people should look at learning about Native American history the same as visiting Washington, D.C., and seeing the monuments there.… — Chaske Spencer Copy Share Image
Radical thought has inspired many of the great political and social reform movements in American history, from ending slavery to establishing the… — Carl Bernstein Copy Share Image
'The Hatfields and McCoys' is a classic tale of American history. These are names that are widely recognized, yet few people know… — Nancy Dubuc Copy Share Image
No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now. — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
The trouble with American History is that you don't remember it, and why should you? Nobody does. — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
Republicans fighting back against changes Obama made means those changes are important, as with most of the major progress in American history. — Jonathan Chait Copy Share Image
African American history is really American history because African Americans really helped build this country. — Don Lemon Copy Share Image
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