American History Quotes - Page 13

• 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.

  Mitt Romney

  Emergencies, Financial, Scales

  "Mitt Romney: Obama isn't serious about America's financial health". New Hampshire Union Leader, April 25, 2011.

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• I feel sometimes an American artist must feel, like a baseball player or something - a member of a team writing American history.

  Willem de Kooning

  Baseball, Team, Writing

  Willem De Kooning (1979). “Willem de Kooning: Pittsburgh International Series, October 26, 1979-January 6, 1980, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute”

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• Now, thanks to President [Barack] Obama and the policies of Democrats when we have been able to achieve 73 straight months of sustained growth in the private sector. The longest it has been in American history.

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz

  Growth, President, Able

  Source: ciudadweston.com

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• This is a critical time in American history. [Donald's Trump] strength is willingness to stand up to political conventions, take on Republican and Democrat leaders, and, in effect, do so in defense of the legitimate interest of people who make less than median income in America, is the key to victory.

  Jeff Sessions

  America, Keys, People

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• We [Americans] inherited British law, which is like the new "reforms" that are being made now, in the sense that people are permanently entrapped in debt, if they once fall into bankruptcy. The reason that the law was changed in American history - the whole early period of the formation of the country was moving away from British law into a law that is generated here and that conforms to the sense of what is appropriate here.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Country, Moving, Fall

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• The most important lesson of American history is the promise of the unexpected. None of our ancestors would have imagined settling way over here on this unknown continent. So we must continue to have society that is hospitable to the unexpected, which allows possibilities to develop beyond our own imaginings.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Promise, Important, Lessons

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I know something about the civilization of China, with my background, obviously, and I think I know something about American history. But that's about all. And I've traveled all over the world, and for a long time I didn't know very much about it, really.

  I. M. Pei

  Thinking, Civilization, Long

  Source: archtalks.com

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• Jerry Garcia was a great American master and the Grateful Dead are not just a genuine piece of musical history, but also an important part of American history.

  Trey Anastasio

  Grateful, Musical, Important

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• I always say African American history is the quintessential American story. It's about perseverance and resilience - something everyone can relate to.

  Philip Freelon

  Perseverance, African American, Resilience

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• In terms of black music - the only music that we can call our own, that was really born here - I don't think a lot has been done to chronicle the relations between American history and where black music fits in.

  Tom Waits

  Thinking, Black, Done

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