“Bill Clinton is the greatest president of the 20th century because I played touch football with him.” PresidentCenturyFootballBillsClinton20th CenturyTouch Football Author:Al Franken
“Reagan's story of freedom superficially alludes to the Founding Fathers, but its substance comes from the Gilded Age, devised by apologists for the robber barons. It is posed abstractly as the freedom of the individual from government control a Jeffersonian ideal at the roots of our Bill of Rights, to be sure. But what it meant in politics a century later, and still means today, is the freedom to accumulate wealth without social or democratic responsibilities and license to buy the political system right out from everyone else.” MeanStillsStoriesGovernmentAgeTodayPoliticalFatherIndividualSocialWealthResponsibilityRightsCenturyIdealsRootsBillsDemocraticSubstanceFoundingLicensePolitical SystemsBill Of RightsRobbersGildedGilded AgeRobber Baron Author:Bill Moyers
“[I]t is true that [the provisions of the Bill of Rights] were designed to meet ancient evils. But they are the same kind of human evils that have emerged from century to century whenever excessive power is sought by the few at the expense of the many.” HumansKindEvilRightsCenturyBillsAncientExpensesProvisionBill Of Rights Author:Hugo Black
“The postwar [WWII] GI Bill of Rights - and the enthusiastic response to it on the part of America's veterans - signaled the shift to the knowledge society. Future historians may consider it the most important event of the twentieth century. We are clearly in the midst of this transformation; indeed, if history is any guide, it will not be completed until 2010 or 2020. But already it has changed the political, economic and moral landscape of the world.” IfsWorldMayImportantAmericaPoliticalMoralRightsEconomicCenturyEventsChangedTransformationBillsResponseGuidesLandscapeMidstHistorianVeteranEnthusiasticTwentieth CenturyWwiiBill Of RightsGisImportant Events Author:Peter Drucker
“The woman's bill of rights is, unhappily, long overdue. It should have run along with the rights of man in the eighteenth century. Its drag as to time of official proclamation is a drag as to social vision. And even if equal rights were now written into the law of our land, it would be so inadequate today as a means to food, clothing and shelter for woman at large that what they would still be enjoying would be equality in disaster rather than in realistic privilege.” IfsMenShouldMeanLongStillsWould BeRunningTodayLawSocialEnjoyVisionRightsWrittenLandCenturyEqualShould HaveBillsPrivilegeDisasterOfficialsRealisticClothingsDragShelterWomens RightsEqual RightsInadequateBill Of RightsProclamationOverdue Author:Mary Ritter Beard
“Cities offer us powerful leverage on our most stubborn, wasteful practices. Long commutes in our cars, big power bills from our energy-hogging buildings, shopping trips to buy stuff that'll spend a few short months in our homes and long centuries in our landfills.” LongHomeBigsEnergyStuffPowerfulCitiesPracticeCenturyCarBuildingMonthsOffersBillsShoppingStubbornLandfills Author:Alex Steffen
“Let's be honest - Bill Murray was onto something when he laughed at Andie MacDowell's degree in 19th century French poetry in 'Groundhog Day'.” CenturyHonestDegreesBillsBeing HonestLaughed19th CenturyGroundhog DayFrench PoetryGroundhogs Author:Marco Rubio
“It hurt the economic historians, the Marxists and the fabians, to admit that the Ten Hour Bill, the basic piece of 19th century legislation, came down from the top, out of aa nobleman's private feelings about the Gospel, or that the abolition of the slave trade was achieved, not through the operation of some "law" of profit and loss, but peurlet as the result of tyhe new humanitarianism of the Evangelicals.” FeelingsLawHoursHurtLossResultsPiecesEconomicCenturyTenTradeBillsSlaveProfitOperationsHistorianIt HurtsLegislationHumanitarianism19th CenturyAbolitionMarxistSlave TradeNoblemenProfit And Loss Author:Barbara Tuchman
“When Bill Gates started Corbis we were told that he needed images to fill those digital picture frames in his home, and many found this plausible. But now it's pretty clear that he's set out to control the visual history of the twentieth century.” HomeFoundClearCenturyNeededBillsVisualsDigitalGatesTwentieth CenturyPlausiblePicture Frames Author:Philip Jones Griffiths