American History Quotes

Voting against the resolution authorizing the use of military force in Iraq was one of my proudest moments as a senator. It is long past time to close this tragic chapter in American history.

Barack Obama is one of the greatest politicians in American history.

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

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

The Grutter and Gratz decisions, taken together, represent a sad and tragic chapter in American history.

I sang 'American Pie' a lot in my stage set. It had a knack of uniting an audience in a sing-along. It's a clever song about American history but wrapped in a fantastic tune.

We must never forget that Black History is American History. The achievements of African Americans have contributed to our nation's greatness.

It somehow became an article of faith on the right that Obama is the most extreme president in American history. Although, when they say that, I think what they really mean is...he's black.

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

[Ronald Reagan] called the image of [George] Washington praying on his knees in Valley Forge "the most sublime image in American history."

Obama has been the single worst president in modern American history in dealing with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

To an American, land is solidity, goodness, and hope. American history is about land.

His [Gen. Douglas MacArthurs] twenty-two medals-thirteen of them for heroism-probably exceeded those of any other figure in American history. He seemed to seek death on battlefields.

The source of our suffering has been our timidity. We have been afraid to think....Let us dare to read, think, speak, write.

I think people should look at learning about Native American history the same as visiting Washington, D.C., and seeing the monuments there. It's all part of the package.

It is imperative that young white men and women study the black American history. It is imperative that blacks and whites study the Asian American history.

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

Precisely that, covering 500 years of African-American history in six hours. I've been working on this for seven years. The biggest challenge was deciding which stories to tell.

[Donald Trump] ran an extraordinarily unconventional campaign and it resulted in the biggest political upset in perhaps modern political history. American history.

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

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

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.

Well, I'm a history buff, anyway. I love learning about different periods, especially in American history. I'm a fan.

Throughout American history, there have been moments that call on us to meet the challenges of an uncertain world, and pay whatever price is required to secure our freedom.

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,'

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

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

Throughout American history, we have elected presidents who had not been honest man. Warren Harding, Richard Nixon, to some extent, Lyndon Johnson just to name a few.

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

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

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

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.

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

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!

Tony Kaye is great with that kind of stuff. Up until American History X, he had only done commercials.

There is no time in American history in which there was more economic conflict between segments of the population than there was prior to the Civil War.

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

He sailed through American history like a steel ship loaded with monoliths of granite.

I don't think I came out of anybody. I think I developed out of the influences I described in My Dark Places. American history, L.A. of the 1950s. I'm comfortable with that.

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

Republicans fighting back against changes Obama made means those changes are important, as with most of the major progress in American history.

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

If Martin Luther King were here he'd be very surprised at some of the sugar-coated versions of American history presented today.

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

Unlike any other leader in modern American history, we are led today by a president that has decided to pit Americans against each other.

The Catholic Church with its foreshortened American history and tangled puritanical roots was as inviolate to my mother and father as it was to the last-ditch aristocrats of Evelyn Waugh.

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.

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.