Sometimes I wish eastern Congo could suffer an earthquake or a tsunami, so that it might finally get the attention it needs.… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
The United States has tried for years to live down President Franklin D. Roosevelt's order during World War II to move Japanese-Americans… — Helen Thomas Copy Share Image
The most difficult task, phase-out over the next 20-25 years of coal use that does not capture COâ‚‚, is Herculean, yet feasible… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
World War II is the war that made our world. There's no question about that. The history of all the years in… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
The gratitude of every home in our Island, in our Empire, and indeed throughout the world, except in the abodes of the… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Just take Germany and the suffering of Jews during and after the Second World War. It would be legal to ridicule and… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
The reality of Canadian history is that we've been willing to do the important things the world demanded of us: fighting in… — Chris Alexander Copy Share Image
It cost about 75 cents to kill a man in Ceasar's time. The price rose to about $3,000 per man during the… — Homer Bone Copy Share Image
“The Korean Peninsula was kind of left over when the Second World War ended. Stalin and Truman each occupied a bit in… — Jonas Jonasson Copy Share Image
“most Americans have never recognized as “terrorist” in precisely the same sense the firestorms caused deliberately by U.S. firebombing of Tokyo or… — Daniel Ellsberg Copy Share Image
“Tonight, no one will rage and cry: "My Kingdom for a horse!" No ghost will come to haunt the battlements of a… — Michel Tremblay Copy Share Image
“But after World War II, the brothers realized they were running hard just to stay in one place. They weren’t building volume… — Ray Kroc Copy Share Image
“Pulp devotees did not invent the word fan (derived from the Latin fanaticus , "possessed by divine madness") but they established the… — Steve Silberman Copy Share Image
The word crap is actually another word that's very, very old. It was taken over from 17th century England by the pilgrim… — Lucy Worsley Copy Share Image
“History lesson, folks: The tax system we have today—the one we've come to know and love—began ninety-four years ago as a (drum… — Neal Boortz Copy Share Image
“The single biggest barrier to getting men to look within is that what any other group would call powerlessness, men have been… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
The Kurds had always had a bad time. They were oppressed by the Ottoman empire. Then, at the end of the First… — Adam Curtis Copy Share Image
The third world war is not going to happen! I predict it! It is not going to happen, because of you, because… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I read all the books I could find about manners, and the extraordinary thing was, in all books up to the end… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
Until the attack on Pearl Harbor, isolationism was an important, even dominant strand in U.S. politics. After the Second World War, this… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
“the luxury vacations had come as a personal affront to a woman who had survived the Great Depression, a world war, the… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
Ours was the Thatcher generation. Ultimately, we were all trying to succeed. There was a work ethic instilled in us. Our parents… — Michaela Strachan Copy Share Image
Also, any older song, especially any World War II songs remind me of Mama. She goes around the house either whistling or… — Reba McEntire Copy Share Image
In 1940, then-Senator Harry Truman headed up a Senate Special Committee to Investigate the National Defense Program. In the course of World… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Four years of world war, at a cost in human suffering which our minds are mercifully too limited to imagine, led to… — Arthur Henderson Copy Share Image
I've read a lot of war writing, even World War I writing, the British war poetry of Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon,… — George Packer Copy Share Image
When you can identify a specific tax that people don't like, and this is one that was designed for the Rockefellers, for… — Paul Gigot Copy Share Image
It was through the Second World War that most of us suddenlyappreciated for the first time the power of man's concentrated efforts… — Vannevar Bush Copy Share Image
Honestly, I really didn't want to take on World War II France, but when I came across the story of a nineteen-year-old… — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
“The FSB compound at the west end of Grozny airport looked like a scene from the Second World War. The entire facade… — Will Jordan Copy Share Image
The Green New Deal we are proposing will be similar in scale to the mobilization efforts seen in World War II or… — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Copy Share Image
There are few historians who would challenge the fact that the funding of World War I, World War II, the Korean War,… — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share Image
“SR: "We are talking of a world war." AQ: "And that makes you sweat, son?" SR: "Heavens, man! Doesn't it you?" AQ:… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
I'm fascinated by the First World War because it was supposed to be the war to end all wars, and it was… — Glenn Close Copy Share Image
We haven't had a world war in a long time. We do have mass movements of people out of Syria and North… — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
Dalai Lama was leading his country during the rigors of World War II, he was in Beijing for a year in 1954;… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
“Ill-advisedly, the western Allies, following the defeat of Germany in World War I, sought to punish and degrade their adversary rather than… — Charles River Editors Copy Share Image
My father was an air officer in the Second World War. My brother was a marine in Vietnam. When I was given… — Valerie Plame Copy Share Image
It's my belief that, since the end of the Second World War, psychology has moved too far away from its original roots,… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
For a while I got into the South Pacific theater of World War II. I read "American Caesar" by William Manchester, the… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
