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“The trial of Enron chiefs Jeffrey Skilling and Ken Lay began four-and-a-half years after perpetrating -- allegedly -- the fraud that led to the second largest bankruptcy in American history. Why four-and-a-half years? Because apparently it's harder to bring Ken Lay to trial than it is to invade two countries.”

Years Two Country Half Four Harder Lays Trials Chiefs Fraud American History Bankruptcy Half A Year Two Countries Enron

Author:Jon Stewart

“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.”

Song Audience Stage Clever Fantastic Tunes American History Pie Knack Uniting American Pie

Author:Johnny Vegas

“Many of the ugly pages of American history have been obscured and forgotten. A society is always eager to cover misdeeds with a cloak of forgetfulness, but no society can fully repress an ugly past when the ravages persist into the present. America owes a debt of justice which it has only begun to pay. If it loses the will to finish or slackens in its determination, history will recall its crimes and the country that would be great will lack the most indispensable element of greatness — justice.”

“I don't think there's been a time in American history with more innocent people in prison.”

People Thinking Prison Innocent American History

Author:Bryan Stevenson

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

Persons White American History Franklin

Author:Peabo Bryson

“Black history isn’t a separate history. This is all of our history, this is American history, and we need to understand that. It has such an impact on kids and their values and how they view black people.”

People Needs Kids Values Black Views Impact Black People American History Black History

Author:Karyn Parsons

“The gap between ideals and actualities, between dreams and achievements, the gap that can spur strong men to increased exertions, but can break the spirit of others -- this gap is the most conspicuous, continuous land mark in American history. It is conspicuous and continuous not because Americans achieve little, but because they dream grandly. The gap is a standing reproach to Americans; but it marks them off as a special and singularly admirable community among the world's peoples.”

Men World Littles Dream America Spirit Strong Community Break Land Achieve Special Achievement Ideals Standing Mark Gaps American History Admirable Spurs Reproach Exertion Strong Man Actuality

Author:George Will

“I have scary eyes. I look like the guy in 'American History X,' yes. I remember coming home from school and asking my mum if I could get an eye transplant, and of course she declined.”

Ifs Looks Home Eye School Remember Guy Courses Asking Scary If I Could Coming Home Mum American History Transplants

Author:Tim Ferriss

“A President and his wise men can only propose; but Congress disposes. It is when President and Congress agree that American history marches forward.”

Men President Democracy Wise Agree Congress March American History Propose

Author:Theodore White

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

Land Goodness American History Solidity

Book:Blue Highways: A Journey Into America

Source: Blue Highways: A Journey Into America

“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.”

Christian Lasts Mother Father Church Roots Catholic American History Catholic Church Mother And Father Tangled

Author:Maureen Howard

“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.”

Two Courage Figures Twenties Heroism American History Medal Battlefields Thirteen Twenty Two Macarthur

Book:American Caesar

Source: American Caesar

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

Political Politics Ships American History Steel Loaded Granite

Book:Mencken Chrestomathy

Source: Mencken Chrestomathy

“There is one unmistakable lesson in American history; a community that allows a large number of young men to grow up in broken families, dominated by women, never acquiring any stable relationship to male authority, never acquiring any set of rational expectations about the future - that community asks for and gets chaos.”

Source: Miles to Go: A Personal History of Social Policy

“Radical thought has inspired many of the great political and social reform movements in American history, from ending slavery to establishing the minimum wage.”

Political Social Movement Slavery Inspired Radical Reform American History Minimum Minimum Wage Social Reform Social Movements Great Political Reform Movements Ending Slavery

Author:Carl Bernstein

“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.”

Running Left Taken Policy Periods Democratic Congress Reactions Administration American History

Author:Haley Barbour

“We should not blur the lines between legal and illegal immigrants. Millions of people around the world have gone through the process to come here legally and they followed the rules that required them to pay a fee, learn English, and learn about American history and government.”

People World Should Government Process Lines Pay Millions Gone Around The World Immigrants Illegal American History Fees Blur Illegal Immigrants

Author:Ken Calvert

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

President Generations Barack American History

Author:Dinesh D'Souza

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

Book School American History History Books Canadian History

Author:Dave Foley

“There was no intellectual movement in American history called social Darwinism. The people who were supposedly the leaders of the social Darwinist movement never embraced something called social Darwinism. It didn't exist.”

People Social Leader Movement Intellectual American History Darwinism Social Darwinism

Author:Jonah Goldberg

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

Independence Sacred American History Declaration Declaration Of Independence

Author:Paul Gillmor

“After eight months of one of the most intensive public and private investigations in American history, no one - no one - has come up with a shred of evidence that I had anything to do with the anthrax letters. I have never worked with anthrax. I know nothing about this matter.”

Knows Matter Months Evidence Letters Come Up Eight Investigation American History Anthrax

Author:Steven Hatfill

“May 4th is a particularly memorable day in American history because 84 years to the day before May 4, 1970, there was another demonstration at the Haymarket Square in Chicago.”

Years May Memorable Chicago Squares American History Demonstration

Author:William Kunstler

“I'm the treasurer of the state of Ohio, where, when the United States credit rating was downgraded for the first time in American history, and 14 government funds around the country were downgraded, we earned the highest rating we could earn on our $4 billion investment fund.”

Firsts Country States Government United United States Highest First Time Investment Credit Billions Fund American History Rating Ohio Treasurer

Author:Josh Mandel

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