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Students of American history will recall that the important place where work gets done in the legislative body, almost without exception, is in the committees, more so than on the floor although sometimes more attention is paid to the floor.
Paul Sarbanes
Work
History
Sometimes
Will
Important
More
Exception
Students
Almost
Attention
Although
Without
Than
American
Gets
Done
Committees
Legislative
Where
American History
Place
Body
Paid
Floor
Recall
Cheney refers to his vice presidency... as one of the most consequential vice presidencies in American history. And it clearly was.
R. J. Cutler
History
Presidency
Clearly
Most
Cheney
His
American
Vice
American History
It's disappointing that President Obama - who ran for office in 2008 saying he was going to be a fiscally responsible president - has caused the largest deficits and the largest debt in American history.
Raul Labrador
Saying
History
President
President Obama
Ran
Deficits
Responsible
Obama
He
Disappointing
Fiscally
Caused
Debt
Office
American
Going
American History
Who
Largest
I'm so proud of myself. I thought, 'I've got to learn about American history.' I literally took two months off and watched every documentary known to man. I really didn't know Benjamin Franklin was so cool.
Rene Russo
Myself
History
Man
Thought
Every
Took
Months
Benjamin Franklin
Franklin
About
Know
Documentary
Learn
Known
Got
Proud
Off
American
Literally
American History
Really
Cool
Watched
Two
Richard Nixon had a kind of Walter Mitty fantasy life. He was a man with a grandiose thoughts: dreams of not simply being president but maybe becoming one of the truly great presidents of American history.
Robert Dallek
Life
Dreams
Great
Thoughts
History
Man
Richard Nixon
President
Presidents
Nixon
Kind
Had
He
Simply
Becoming
Truly
American
Maybe
Being
American History
Fantasy
Grandiose
Richard
The rise of the Tea Party, along with the emergence of Christine O'Donnell in Delaware, Sharron Angle in Nevada, Carl Paladino in New York and Ron Paul in Kentucky, is not the first time in American history that voters have responded to hard economic times by supporting angry, unorthodox Senate and gubernatorial candidates.
Robert Dallek
Time
Angry
History
First
Party
Tea
Unorthodox
Delaware
Emergence
Rise
Angle
Economic
Nevada
Economic Times
Supporting
New
Along
Voters
First Time
Times
Senate
American
York
Candidates
New York
American History
Ron
Paul
Tea Party
Hard
Kentucky
Christine
Political vitriol is a familiar enough characteristic of American history.
Robert Dallek
History
Political
Enough
Characteristic
Familiar
American
American History
I learned a lot about American history though jazz, and that's why I loved American history when I was in high school. I could hear different stories - the story that they would tell in school, and then the story that I would hear in the music.
Ron Cephas Jones
Music
History
School
Jazz
Though
Tell
High
Would
High School
About
Could
Learned
Hear
Lot
American
Different
Stories
Loved
Story
American History
Then
Why
I've always been interested in the Depression as this very dramatic pivotal period in American history.
Ron Howard
Depression
History
Dramatic
Period
Always
Been
Very
American
Pivotal
American History
Interested
If you go back in American history, oysters were the food of poor people. New York was filled with oyster saloons in the 1800s.
Ruth Reichl
Food
History
You
People
Back
New
Go
Were
American
York
New York
American History
Poor
Poor People
Filled
There is an almost anti-epicurean tradition at the very base of America. For much of the middle part of American history, people who wanted to overcome that went to France.
Ruth Reichl
History
People
Overcome
France
Part
Almost
Tradition
Very
America
American
Middle
Wanted
American History
Much
Who
Base
Iraq is going to go down as one of the greatest blunders in American history.
Scott Anderson
History
Down
Greatest
Go
Iraq
American
Going
Blunders
American History
During the 2016 presidential campaign, candidate Donald Trump pledged to eliminate our national debt 'over a period of eight years.' Now two years into his administration, our national debt has increased, surpassing $21 trillion for the first time in American history.
Seth Moulton
Time
History
First
National
Increased
Our
Presidential
Presidential Campaign
Pledged
Administration
Trillion
Over
Period
First Time
Surpassing
His
Years
Trump
National Debt
Campaign
Debt
American
Donald
Donald Trump
Candidate
Eight
American History
Now
Eliminate
Two
Boycotts have been a critical part of social justice in American history, particularly for African-Americans.
Stacey Abrams
History
Justice
Critical
Part
Particularly
Boycott
Been
American
American History
Social
Social Justice
After eight months of one of the most intensive public and private investigations in American history, no one - no one - has come up with a shred of evidence that I had anything to do with the anthrax letters. I have never worked with anthrax. I know nothing about this matter.
Steven Hatfill
History
Matter
Nothing
Months
Evidence
About
Investigations
Never
Had
No-One
Come
Know
Most
Private
Anthrax
Up
American
Intensive
Eight
After
Anything
American History
Public
Worked
Shred
Letters
If you are attempting to study American history, and you don't understand the force of white supremacy, you fundamentally misunderstand America.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
History
You
White
Attempting
Study
Supremacy
Force
Understand
Misunderstand
America
American
American History
Fundamentally
I have scary eyes. I look like the guy in 'American History X,' yes. I remember coming home from school and asking my mum if I could get an eye transplant, and of course she declined.
Tim Ferriss
Home
History
Eyes
Remember
School
Eye
Scary
Guy
Could
Like
Look
She
Course
Coming
Coming Home
Yes
Get
American
American History
Declined
If I Could
Asking
Transplant
Mum
Those that clamor loudest for Columbus to be erased from the pages of American history do so far more because of their hatred for America than their love of the Indians.
Tom Tancredo
Love
History
Hatred
Loudest
Those
Clamor
Indians
More
Columbus
Because
Erased
Than
America
American
American History
Far
Pages
In the course of American history, great steps are taken by ordinary people, and ordinary people are not perfect.
Tommy Lee Jones
Great
History
People
Not Perfect
Perfect
Taken
Steps
Course
American
Ordinary
American History
Ordinary People
It was OK for the media to pursue Former President Clinton year after year for lying about a private, consensual sexual affair, but we have five justices who committed one of the biggest crimes in American History, and it ceased to be a big story.
Vincent Bugliosi
History
Big
Year
Lying
President
President Clinton
Crimes
OK
Sexual
About
Pursue
Affair
Private
Clinton
Five
American
Committed
Big Story
After
Biggest
Story
American History
Former
Justices
Who
Media
American history and the black experience are inextricable. And both are inextricable from policing. Far more often than not, that's been a good thing.
William Bratton
Good
History
Experience
Black
More
Both
Good Thing
Policing
Been
Than
American
Often
American History
Far
Thing
African-American history is American history.
Rhiannon Giddens
History
American
African-American
American History
My father, to me, is an important piece in American history.
John Carter Cash
Me
History
Father
Important
Piece
American
American History
As president, I would promote a Fair and Flat Tax plan, known as the 'EZ Tax.' My tax plan would be the largest tax cut in American history, reforming individual, business, and worker taxes.
Rand Paul
History
Business
President
Would
Would-Be
Promote
Individual
Fair
Known
American
Reforming
Tax
Flat
Tax Cut
Flat Tax
American History
Plan
Taxes
Cut
Worker
Largest
Barack Obama is the most antibusiness president in a generation, perhaps in American history.
Dinesh D'Souza
History
Generation
President
Obama
Perhaps
Most
American
American History
Barack
Barack Obama
Black history is American history. You cannot tell one story without telling the other.
William Barr
History
You
Black
Other
Tell
Telling
Black History
Without
American
Cannot
Story
American History
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