- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
American Quotes
Many voices, one word.
These American quotes range from wry commentary on press culture to reflections on civic duty at the ballot box, plus lighter notes on dance companies and a television series praised as a genuine American classic. For more on the country itself, visit our America page.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 brought an end to the ugly Jim Crow period in American history.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
Buttigieg was a naval reservist who served as a lieutenant in Afghanistan, so he has seen first hand how American foreign policy has veered wildy off her once-well-rooted tracks.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Department of Education's refusal to oversee and hold for-profit schools accountable is a government-made disaster, and American students and taxpayers should not have to pay for it.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
The post-war American newsroom resembled a vast factory churning out multiple editions through the night. Reporters spent days, sometimes weeks, on a single story.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
The American consumer is also the American worker, and if we don't do something to protect our manufacturing base here at home, it is going to be hard to buy any retail goods.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tom Ford once told me that he found French women sexier than American ones. He said, 'Americans are too clean...' I took no offense.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I began my work as director of the Arab American Association of New York in the wake of the horrific attacks of 9/11.
- American Workers
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- Nov 07, 2020
Less than 8 percent of private sector workers belonged to a union in 2004, and, overall, only 12.5 percent of American workers carry a union card - down from about one-third of workers in labor's heydays in the 1950s.
- Politicians
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- Nov 07, 2020
Where journalists have gotten themselves in trouble over the last few decades is that their skepticism often extends only to American officials, the U.S. military and Republican politicians.
- Fervent
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- Nov 07, 2020
In both British and American history, fervent imperialism has always coexisted with bouts of fierce isolationism.
- Decision
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- Nov 07, 2020
Margaret Thatcher's decision to use Scotland as a testing ground for the poll tax was arguably the most disastrous attempt at fiscal engineering since London slapped the stamp tax on the American colonies in the 1760s.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020