American History Quotes - Page 2

You know what? I didn't mess up about Paul Revere... In a shout-out, gotcha type of question that was asked of me, I answered candidly. And I know my American history.

What the left are trying to do is to persuade millions of Americans that America itself is so unjust and illegitimate from the days of our founding that it isn't worth defending. It's that despicable. That's the objective here, and they are being aided and abetted by the fact that American history is so ill-taught.

It's not painful to relive it. I'm comfortable with my position in American history.

There was a time in American history when almost every white person knew who Aretha Franklin was.

Throughout American history our presidents have invoked our nation's founding fathers. This is particularly true of recent presidents.

Barack Obama is facing a financial emergency on a grander scale. Yet his approach has been to engage in one of the biggest peacetime spending binges in American history.

A trillion dollars spent, 2,000 American lives lost - Afghanistan is the longest war in American history. But you don't hear a word about it.

I'm a history geek and I love American history. It's so bizarre and so problematic and I love the many conundrums that it represents. You can go down so many black holes.

...Venice has been the living future of contemporary American history since its inception.

I like American history, so I was aware of the participants and a lot of it.

Donald Trump will be a tragedy, a sad joke in American history.

I used to teach. I quote American history and I love words. I've read the dictionary I don't know how many times throughout my life. People say, "You read the dictionary?" I say, "Yes, and you can really believe it."

I'm sure that a previous generation of Jews who published radical newspapers and journals would be critical of [David] Simon's projects. These were left wingers who suffered casualties in some of bloodiest strikes in American history.

So many people of color who made major contributions to American history have been trapped in the purgatory of history.

I think so. 9/11 has been a turning point in American history, there's no doubt about that.

There have been many amazing Presidents in American history, including George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Dwight Eisenhower and Ronald Reagan, all of whom I greatly admire.

Barack Obama is the most antibusiness president in a generation, perhaps in American history.

When I was in school, all our history books were American, so we learned American history, not Canadian history.

Donald Verrilli has argued 37 cases in five years on behalf of the [Barak] Obama administration. Many of them turned out to be truly landmark cases. He is the seventh-longest-serving solicitor general in American history.

By looking into more details of American history, we can make more sense of what's happening today.

When you have the worst disaster in American history, you've got to be attuned to expectations,.

The fault line in American history is now a dividing line in the election and it's changing the conversation.

I'm very interested in the early American history, the time when the country came together.

The wort terrorist attack in American history also brought out the best in our country...We are United as Americans.

Jimmy Carter will go down in American history as 'the president who lost Iran,'