The history of American patriotism is figuring out ways that we can work together to move forward and knit together the common government.

Martin Luther King was a leader for all Americans on our own professed values.

There's a natural tendency to sanitize and polish any historical icon whether it be George Washington chopping down the cherry tree or Martin Luther King saying, "I have a dream."

There are an awful lot of people who despise government precisely because it opened the door for common citizenship for people of all races and all natures in the United States.

Martin Luther King was never an up close and personal figure in the United States.

Truth requires a maximum effort to see through the eyes of strangers, foreigners, and enemies.

Where race is involved, there is a pronounced and proven tendency in the United States for the majority culture to willfully misremember the history and turn it upside down.

History is the key to citizenship.

I think the colleges should be free to give athletes less than a full scholarship, no scholarship and more than a scholarship. And the athletes should be free to bargain.

The common theme here was contempt: a poisonous disregard for human life. For Vladimir Putin’s critics have an uncanny habit of turning up dead.

Jaypaw narrowed his eyes. "I'm not as blind as you think.

I don't want to be a reality retro star.

Two polar groups: at one pole we have the literary intellectuals, at the other scientists, and as the most representative, the physical scientists. Between the two a gulf of mutual incomprehension.

Autumn is a season followed immediately by looking forward to spring.

Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens to keep and bear arms.

In the dream life you don't deliberately set out to dream about a house night after night; the dream itself insists you look at whatever is trying to come into visibility.

The American people expect the president of the United States to be prepared to support action to protect the people of this nation. And I know Donald Trump will.

She sees ghosts,” said Samuel, impatient with my whining. I see dead people,” I deadpanned back. Oddly, it was Uncle Mike who laughed. I hadn’t thought he’d be a moviegoer.

I love that about the Beatles, that the music is still going on more than the haircut, you know.