Best 293 quotes in «american history quotes» category

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.

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

At various periods in American history, people get pretty rambunctious when it comes to our democratic debate.

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.

Bill and Hillary Clinton are the most investigated couple in American history - now the most thoroughly exonerated couple in American history.

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

Cherishing Columbus is a characteristic of white history, not American 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.

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are the most disliked and untrusted candidates for president in American history.

For a long time in American history, people didn't even come up before the Senate. They didn't come before the Judiciary Committee, and up until about 1923, something like that.

Hurricane Katrina is without question the worst natural disaster in American history.

I grew up in the South, so a huge part of our American History education revolved around the Civil War.

I hated the lost colony; in second grade, we were doing American History, and they said, We don't know what happened to them. That drove me nuts. That lost colony drove me crazy.

I love thinking about American history, thinking about LA history. I love brooding on crime.

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.

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.

I don't know anything about American history or presidents. I don't know what tailgating is! I've never been to an Olive Garden!

I do think Donald Trump would be a catastrophic turn in American history.

In my totally unscientific yet enthusiastic survey of Communal Experiments Throughout American History, I've discovered that the thing most likely to break up said experiments is: Sex, all that murky, dark, dirty gunk simmering beneath human relations.

I think one of the most pivotal moments in modern American history was Donald Trump's immediate withdraw from TPP.

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

I see Donald Trump as a phenomenon of an expression of certain fears, certain resentments, that have been a running thread in American history.

I'm working on restoring a cabinet over the obstruction of Senate Democrats. It will be one of the great cabinets ever assembled in American history.

Many of the ugly pages of American history have been obscured and forgotten

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

I understood....that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history.

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

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.

the better angels of our nature

President Obama is the most successful food stamp president in American history. I would like to be the most successful paycheck president in American history.

Obama has seen to the passage of the most radical legislation in recent American history and so-called 'progressives' should be thanking him for it - even as many of the rest of us rear in horror from its implications.

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

The Declaration of Independence is a sacred part of American history.

The conversation seemed just as boring and forgettable as details of American history around 1805, for example.

The frontier has gone, and with its going has closed the first period of American history.

The central fact of North American history is that there were fifteen British Colonies before 1776. Thirteen rebelled and two did not.

There have been times throughout American history where what is right is not the same as what is legal. Sometimes to do the right thing you have to break the law.

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.

There's not much place for the loyalists - especially the loyalists who left - in standard American history.

The Obama administration and the Democratic Congress have taken the biggest lurch to the left in policy in American history. There've been no - no Congress, no administration that has run this far to the left in such a small period of time. And there is a reaction to that.

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

The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But its a joke, a blot on American history.

The struggle between centralization and decentralization is at the core of American history.

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

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

This is the worst President ever. He [George W. Bush] is the worst President in all of American history.

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

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

We are going to have the candidate of food stamps, the finest food-stamp president in the American history, in Barack Obama, and we are going to have a candidate of paychecks.

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.