Quotes about History

Christianity is the very root and foundation of Western civilization.

I'm not a practicing Jew but my great-grandparents were. It's part of our family history.

I see things about the present more clearly when I'm looking through the frame of the past: I think it's very hard to assess the present moment that we are in.

Ours is a country with diversified culture and centuries-old tradition, which have to be preserved at any cost.

Barack Obama is the most antibusiness president in a generation, perhaps in American history.

Since 1775, when the first Continental Congress called for a national day of prayer, there have been such events called for by almost every President. I saw the figures - 34 out of 44 Presidents have called for a national day of prayer. Some of those who didn't have died in office.

If all the people of this country, black and white alike, are to enter fully into our national story, as I desperately hope they will, they must do so on terms of reciprocity.

When a black church is hit in South Carolina by someone with hate in their spirit, that's something that touches all of America, but as a person of color, I see that story even through a deeper prism of, 'Gosh, that takes us back to a time when black churches were targets in this country.'

Your mates are the people who have been around 10 years or more.

Rap music's the only thing that ever mattered.

The America of John McCain has no need to be made great again because America was always great.

Medieval learning was really advanced.