It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.

Part of the problem is voters know relatively little about Romney. And some of what they know about him complicates his task: Romney has a history of flip-flopping on issues he's extraordinarily wealthy and he can be tone-deaf about what moves voters. He just doesn't seem comfortable in his skin.

Young women today often have very little appreciation for the real battles that took place to get women where they are today in this country. I don't know how much history young women today know about those battles.

History is little more than the register of the crimes follies and misfortunes of mankind.

There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes follies and misfortunes of mankind.

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.

Swedes are such a civilised perfect society - at least on the surface. There's a great safety net a huge middle class free education free health care. People are very polite they wait their turn. They're not too loud they're not too quiet but sometimes it's a little too perfect.

We immigrants can sometimes sound a little hysterical about this because we come from places that have tried this and we know where it leads. Anybody who's lived in countries with socialized health care knows that it becomes the dominant political issue.