Throughout human history the American Idea has done more to help the poor than any other economic system ever designed.

In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins.

I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way.

Without question the Red Ryder BB gun is the most important gun in the history of American weaponry.

Americans are rising to the tasks of history and they expect the same of us.

No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then and it is misremembered now.

I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.

American history is longer larger more various more beautiful and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.

President Barack Obama has stood watch over the greatest job loss in modern American history. And that my friends is one inconvenient truth that will haunt this President throughout history.

The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture and the wild bats flapped out.