Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life. — Warren E. Burger Copy Share Image
The actual God of many Americans... is simply the current of American life. — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life. — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
English is the key to full participation in the opportunities of American life. — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
American art ought to be monumental, in keeping with American life. — Gutzon Borglum Copy Share Image
When American life is most American it is apt to be most theatrical. — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
One of the most constant aspects of American life is change - and nowhere is it more evident than in our financial… — Henry Paulson Copy Share Image
Many things about American life, that even secular people consider good, have flowed from the presence of a robust, resilient institutional Christianity. — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went. — John Updike Copy Share Image
“Football combines two of the worst things in American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings.” — George Will Copy Share Image
Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Over-reliance on strictly economic justifications has already begun to hurt the quality and range of education at every level of American life. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That's one of the things about the Tea Party people. They think corporations have too much influence in American life and they… — Howard Dean Copy Share Image
I think President [Barack] Obama deeply underestimated the force of white supremacy in American life. — Ta-Nehisi Coates 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
A lot of times when we work overseas we tend to put the experience of someone who lives overseas, a Chinese person… — John Pomfret Copy Share Image
“This is the clearest, most powerful summons yet, TO ALL OF US, to restore the American story to its rightful, vital place… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“The law is too important to be left to the lawyers, to paraphrase Georges Clemenceau about war and generals. We laymen know… — David K. Shipler Copy Share Image
I think American life would be better without Twitter, and I think we'd have a better country if the president was not… — David Garrow Copy Share Image
Frank Capra, Hollywood's Horatio Alger, lights with more cinematic know-how and zeal than any other director to convince movie audiences that American… — Manny Farber 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 most successful people in American life are those that have had horrific failures and have come back, done it again and… — Frank Luntz Copy Share Image
If you read the biographies of people who have written good books, you often see the point where they suddenly come into… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“The historical periods I like to learn about aren’t so much costume dramas as slasher flicks. The French Revolution is a favorite… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
No sovereign, no court, no personal loyalty, no aristocracy, no church, no clergy, no army, no diplomatic service, no country gentlemen, no… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Senator John McCain is unlike anybody else in not - not just in the Senate but in American politics. He's unlike anybody… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
The trauma of 9/11 stimulated infinite possibilities for worry - some quite plausible, but most inspired by remote what-if fantasies. A society… — William Greider Copy Share Image
There was a kind of cultural life in New York that wasn't as solidified as it is now, it wasn't as money-driven.… — Robert Benton 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
One of the manifestations of depression for me is that I lose my will. And I thereby lose my ability to focus.… — Rachel Maddow 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
“Though we could always explain that our life was not as glamorous as it might seem in the telling, we did come… — Megan Rich Copy Share Image
“With each surge of westward movement a new community came into being. These communities devoted themselves not to marching onward but to… — Henry Nash Smith Copy Share Image
“As a Chinese American growing up in a largely white world during the 1920s and 1930s, a sense of social marginalization marked… — Stephen M. Ward Copy Share Image
“On the labour front in 1919 there was an unprecedented number of strikes involving many millions of workers. One of the lager… — E.L. Doctorow 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
“Can it be that the ultimate chapter of this new era of democratic freedom is going to be deformed by this growing… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
“Progressivism was imported from Europe and would result in a radical break from America’s heritage. In fact, it is best described as… — Mark R. Levin Copy Share Image