3 December 2020 Tony Blair We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, like them, will not rest until this evil is driven from our world.
3 December 2020 Chris Rock I was bused to a school in Gerritsen Beach in Brooklyn in 1972. I was one of the first black kids in the history of the school.
3 December 2020 Paul Valery The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.
3 December 2020 Oliver North I haven’t, in the 23 years that I have been in the uniformed services of the United States of America, ever violated an order – not one.
3 December 2020 Jefferson Davis Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule.
3 December 2020 Joseph Gordon-Levitt When I arrived at Columbia, I gave up acting and became interested in all things French. French poetry, French history, French literature.
3 December 2020 Antonia Fraser I think there has been a great deal of valuable revisionism in women’s history.
3 December 2020 James A. Baldwin American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
3 December 2020 Jacques Yves Cousteau Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.
3 December 2020 Harry Browne For most of our history, Americans enjoyed both liberty and security from foreign threats.
3 December 2020 Jonathan Sacks Jews read the books of Moses not just as history but as divine command. The question to which they are an answer is not, ‘What happened?’ but rather, ‘How then shall I live?’ And it’s only with the exodus that the life of the commands really begins.
3 December 2020 Ed Koch If you listen to Giuliani, it’s like nobody did anything to improve the city except him. I’m not part of the history. Bloomberg’s not part of the history. It’s like, he did it. He’s the only one. That’s why he’s a little crazy.
3 December 2020 Paul Ryan Throughout human history, the American Idea has done more to help the poor than any other economic system ever designed.
3 December 2020 Alexander Haig You have to look at the history of the Middle East in particular. It has been one of failure and frustration, of feudalism and tribalism.
3 December 2020 Tom Osborne The odds are always against you no matter what your previous history is. You have to overcome the tendency to relax.
3 December 2020 Eldridge Cleaver History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.
3 December 2020 Jawaharlal Nehru A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new when an age ends and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance.
3 December 2020 Ron Fournier If history is a guide, a victory for Obama means he faces the prospect of a second term dogged by scandal or inertia.
3 December 2020 Barbara Kruger All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It’s scary.
3 December 2020 William Makepeace Thackeray If a secret history of books could be written, and the author’s private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!
3 December 2020 Johnny Depp France, and the whole of Europe have a great culture and an amazing history. Most important thing though is that people there know how to live! In America they’ve forgotten all about it. I’m afraid that the American culture is a disaster.
3 December 2020 Jonathan Sacks If the history of the Day of Atonement has anything to say to us now it is: never relieve individuals of moral responsibility. The more we have, the more we grow.
3 December 2020 J. C. Watts Some might think that George W. Bush had his shortcomings, but let me tell you something – history’s going to be kind to George W. Bush.
3 December 2020 Manuel Puig In a country like France, so ancient, their history is full of outstanding people, so they carry a heavy weight on their back. Who could write in French after Proust or Flaubert?
3 December 2020 Zoe Saldana I’m so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.
3 December 2020 Tony Kushner Gay writers now have both a sense of history and the fables that allows them to dwell in the realms of the ridiculous and at the same time talk seriously about things.
