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.

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.

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.

I haven't in the 23 years that I have been in the uniformed services of the United States of America ever violated an order - not one.

September 11th was a moment when America had the sympathy of the world.

No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.

We therefore here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy and we like them will not rest until this evil is driven from our world.

A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.