Justified or not, the Supreme Court has a kind of sacred status in American life. For whatever reason, Presidents can safely run… — Jon Meacham 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
American life is a powerful solvent. It seems to neutralize every intellectual element, however tough and alien it may be, and to… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
'Lean on Pete' is the story of a boy and his horse, but it is never heart-warming - it ranges in tone… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
American art ought to be monumental, in keeping with American life. — Gutzon Borglum 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 death of JFK to the resignation of Richard Nixon marked a great turning point in American life. — Pierre Salinger Copy Share Image
Now I would say at any given moment in American life, there are probably 45 poets in airplanes vectoring across the country… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
“Well, my friend, if I may be blunt, all this time you have talked about how you walked away from your American… — Van Heerling Copy Share Image
There is one expanding horror in American life. It is that our long odyssey toward liberty, democracy and freedom-for-all may be achieved… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
There was never a promise that race relations in America would be entirely resolved during my presidency or anybody's presidency. I mean,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
sometimes i wish i'd been an englishman; american life is so damned dumb and stupid and healthy — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The actual God of many Americans... is simply the current of American life. — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
One of the grotesqueries of present-day American life is the amount of reasoning that goes into displaying the wisdom secreted in bad… — Harold Rosenberg 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
Primarily, we need to change 100 years of thinking, where we try to extend the promise of American life by moving things… — Lamar Alexander Copy Share Image
When American life is most American it is apt to be most theatrical. — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
My evaluation of President George W. Bush is nothing personal. He's a lovely person. Sadly, I believe he will be remembered for… — Nancy Pelosi Copy Share Image
“When we finally achieve the full right of participation in American life, what we make of it will depend upon our sense… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
It is a commonplace of American life that immigrants have made our country great and continue to make a very important contribution… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
The surface of American life looks smooth, prosperous, peaceful. But underneath, fault-line shifts in family and work life have led us into… — Arlie Russell Hochschild Copy Share Image
“In prison, I fell in love with my country. I had loved her before then, but like most young people, my affection… — John McCain Copy Share Image
“In the wake of World War II, most Democrats and liberals claimed that if justice could be done and was not, only… — Cal Jillson Copy Share Image
