'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
The Program further aims to make the benefits of American culture and technology available to the world and to enrich American life… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
Deference has been codified in American life as political correctness. And political correctness functions like a despotic regime. It is an oppressiveness… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
As the United States drifts from its Judeo-Christian foundation and as the state becomes ever more pervasive in American life, government could… — H. Wayne House Copy Share Image
“The solar eclipse of Donald Trump signaled the complete triumph of celebrity culture over every aspect of American life. A reality TV… — Joe Hagan Copy Share Image
In our methodical American life, we still recognize some magic in summer. Most persons at least resign themselves to being decently happy… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson Copy Share Image
“Classical liberalism . . . does not wholly define modern American conservatism. There is an added element: a concern with social and… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
“Many historians have noted an interesting phenomenon in American life in the years immediately after a war. In the councils of government… — E.L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
The trouble with me is that I'm an outsider. And that's a very hard thing to be in American life. — Jackie Kennedy Copy Share Image
We have to be honest, we have to be truthful and speak to the one dirty secret in American life, and that… — Henry Cisneros Copy Share Image
The lesson this teaches and which every Afro-American should ponder well, is that a Winchester rifle should have a place of honor… — Ida B. Wells Copy Share Image
“It is spring 2007, and the block-long security lines into the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History (NMAH) are missing now… — Katie King Copy Share Image
“Cowardly peace is filled with fear. It avoids conflict by evasion and compromise. Cowardly peace is a great temptation for all of… — Charles J. Chaput Copy Share Image
“..."extreme capitalism": the obsessive, uncritical penetration of the concept of the market into every aspect of American life, and the attempt to… — James K. Galbraith Copy Share Image
I don't like to lose, and that isn't so much because it is just a football game, but because defeat means the… — Knute Rockne 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
Only in the case of the Negro has the melting pot failed to bring a minority into the full stream of American… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In American life, democracy and capitalism, despite their advantages, tend to erode the place of traditional authorities (families, religious faith, and other… — Charles J. Chaput 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
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
Diversity has been written into the DNA of American life; any institution that lacks a rainbow array has come to seem diminished,… — Joe Klein Copy Share Image
If there's an enduring theme in my work, it's probably the effects of class on American life. — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
The Jews integrated themselves into American life to the point that the argument that the Jews aren't American sounded so stupid, that… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
“There were good men in Afghanistan, men like those who made up our Afghan force, but most were mired in ancient traditions… — Mark L. Donald 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
