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American Quotes by Rick Perlstein
- The history of American higher education over the twentieth century is an extraordinary one, the story of the creation of a powerhouse set of institutions…
- Unfortunately, given the rules of the American political game, people who try to participate by self-righteously refusing to identify with one or the other of…
- I feel bound to respect Ronald Reagan, as every American should - not least because he chose a career of public service when he could…
- It is a quirk of American culture that each generation of nonconservatives sees the right-wingers of its own generation as the scary ones, then chooses…
- Part of the fantasy certain pro-reform Republicans like to broadcast about Hispanics, family-oriented, churchgoing traditionalists, is that they are somehow natural conservatives, just waiting for…
- While Obama might not push college education exclusively, like most Democrats he does oversell it and does shortchange the alternatives. And millions of young Americans…
- I believe politics is a team sport. That, for awful and unfortunate reasons beyond any of our control, the American system only allows, effectively, for…
- One thing Republicans understand: In American elections, you have to choose from among only two people - not between the perfect and the good.
- In American religious history, theological qualms tend to get pushed aside when politics intervenes.
- My big subject as a historian is how Americans divide themselves. What are the divisions that structure our political lives. Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan…
- Everyone on the Left has a favorite story that allows them to kind of excuse Reagan, explain away Reagan, say he was dumb, but unless…
- Watergate got us to think of leaders as mere mortals. America began to think of itself in a very different way - I would say…
More American Quotes
- I know how the American people care for that democratic principle. They want to see their vote respected. As we in Haiti… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics met at… — Rudolf Arnheim
- When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society… — Isaac Asimov
- The Israeli lobby has clout in the U.S., which means that re-arranging the region and controlling its resources one way or another,… — Bashar al-Assad
- When I was a kid, I really loved Indians. Native Americans. Pardon. Me. — Dave Attell
- Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- First, I think more Americans need to declare their independence from partisan politics on both sides. The more that Americans declare their… — John Avlon
- An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect… — Irving Babbitt
- If quantitatively the American achievement is impressive, qualitatively it is somewhat less satisfying. — Irving Babbitt
- Cinco de Mayo has come to represent a celebration of the contributions that Mexican Americans and all Hispanics have made to America. — Joe Baca
- Every year thousands of Americans mistakenly refer to Cinco de Mayo as Mexico's Independence Day. — Joe Baca
- Products made in China are cheap through the exploitation of the workforce. Every time we shop, we are driving the nail further… — Joe Baca