America Quote by Simon Schama

Most foreign policies that history has marked highly, in whatever country, have been originated by leaders who were opposed by experts.

— Henry A. Kissinger

I'm a historian by training and by conviction. And so the thing that has throughout informed my thinking about international relations is history. I…

— Timothy Garton Ash

I think if you're going to master policy, especially world affairs, you've got to know history.

— Charles Krauthammer

I've always been interested in foreign relations. It's my belief that study of history should be our preparation for understanding the present rather than…

— Elizabeth Kostova

History will judge the invasion of Iraq one of the greatest foreign policy misadventures of all time.

— Senator John Kerry

You don't have to keep looking at the future foreign policy in terms, simply, of the past.

— Tony Blair

I think that America has an obsession with history, really.

— JJ Feild

History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world…

— Howard Nemerov

Americans, more than most people, believe that history is the result of individual decisions to implement conscious intentions. For Americans, more than most people,…

— George Will

The people [in the USA] are not very well informed. They certainly don`t know history. They certainly are not interested in foreign affairs very…

— Bill Maher

History is wonderful. We have so much we can learn if we would quit making ideology out of history, and just deal with what…

— Nikki Giovanni

“History is about winners, not about losers. History is about assessing distortions, not copying out truths. History has much to say about the way…

— J. R. Vincent