“The lesson of an American life like my father's... is that achievements are compatible with decency (112).” — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
We will send ships and Marines as soon as possible for the protection of American life and property. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The great scandal of American life is that we pay for German levels of government without enjoying the related benefits. — Kevin D. Williamson 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
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
“Football combines two of the worst things in American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings.” — George Will 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
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
For most Americans, work is central to their experience of the world, and the corporation is one of the fundamental institutions of… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
What I'm OK with is protecting the American people. What I'm OK with is, when people have the intent to come to… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
I've been to Toronto several times and I would say that my best holidays have been there. I love it as a… — Colin Jackson Copy Share Image
Bean-counting government bureaucrats are free to take race, ethnicity and gender into account when doling out public funds to non-white-male contractors. But… — Michelle Malkin Copy Share Image
Let us instance one respect in which American life has recently undergone a great change. We allude to its increased devotion to… — Frank Crowninshield Copy Share Image
Richard Hofstadter, in his famous book which was written in the time of the McCarthy period in the 1950 and 1960s, Anti-intellectualism… — Joan Wallach Scott Copy Share Image
When I started 'This American Life', one of the reactions I got was, 'When is the adult going to show up who… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
Donald Trump wants to make it clear to the American people that, while Hillary Clinton is committed to open borders, and amnesty,… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
“Imagine that you are stuck on a long train ride and must choose one of two books to read in order to… — Mark Thompson Copy Share Image
“Tocqueville saw that the life of constant action and decision which was entailed by the democratic and businesslike character of American life… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
Buffett's uncommon urge to chronicle made him a unique character in American life, not only a great capitalist but the Great Explainer… — Roger Lowenstein Copy Share Image
Immigration law doesn't exist for the purpose of keeping criminals out. It exists to protect all aspects of American life, the work… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Those who first introduced compulsory education into American life knew exactly why children should go to school and learn to read: to… — Dorothy H Cohen Copy Share Image
Senator Allen has long been a leader on competitiveness issues in the Senate and as governor of Virginia. His announcement of the… — John Engler 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
Our new immigrants must be part of our one America. After all, they're revitalizing our cities, they're energizing our culture, they're building… — William J. Clinton 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went. — John Updike 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
Yes, too much emphasis is put on outward physical attributes in every area of American life. — Gloria Gaynor Copy Share Image
Football features two of the worst aspects of American life, violence and committee meetings. — George F Wil Copy Share Image
You really don't want a president who is a football fan. Football combines the worst features of American life. It is violence… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My goal is to make as many films as possible about different aspects of American life. — Frederick Wiseman Copy Share Image
“Driving is boring," Rabbit pontificates, "but it's what we do. Most of American life is driving somewhere and then driving back wondering… — John Updike 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
