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Unlike any other leader in modern American history, we are led today by a president that has decided to pit Americans against each other.

History Today Leader American

RuPaul might not broadcast herself as political, but I think she tries to make moves in American history by catching more flies with honey than vinegar. Rather than telling people to vote, maybe she'll do a mini-challenge on voting. She understands that you can influence people in a good way without preaching.

Good History You People

Black history is part of American history, and it should be treated as such.

History Black American Should

African American history is really American history because African Americans really helped build this country.

History Country American Build

We are now in the Me Decade - seeing the upward roll of the third great religious wave in American history.

History Me Great Decade

The defining moment in American economic history is when Bill Clinton lobbied to get China into the World Trade Organization. It was the worst political and economic mistake in American history in the last 100 years.

History Moment Mistake World

Like the attack on Pearl Harbor, another hinge event in American history, 9/11 was a great tactical victory for America's enemies. But in both these cases, the tactical success of the attacks was not matched by strategic victories. Quite the reverse.

Success History Great Victory

9/11 was a sort of hinge event in American history, and all jihadi terrorist plots or attacks are kind of filtered through that lens.

History American Through Lens

Americans don't learn about the world; they don't study world history, other than American history in a very one-sided fashion, and they don't study geography.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

History Fashion World Study

The Fed's organization reflects a long-standing desire in American history to ensure that power over our nation's monetary policy and financial system is not concentrated in a few hands, whether in Washington or in high finance or in any single group or constituency.

History Power Finance Hands

Bill Clinton presided over the largest increase in federal and state prison inmates of any president in American history.

Michelle Alexander

History Prison American President

The largest outbreak of bird flu in American history was an H5N2 virus, which led to the deaths of 17 million domestic birds and cost the nation more than $400 million during an outbreak in Pennsylvania that started in 1983.

History Bird Birds Nation

I'm not a fan of public school at all; I think it's one of the greatest catastrophes of American history.

History School Think American

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.

History Truth Friends Job

Schools don't teach American history that well, especially a lot of black American history.

Colson Whitehead

History Black Teach American

The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the cold war, is that the engine of capitalism, the individual, is mightier than any collective.

History War Great Capitalism

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.

History Business Plan American

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.

Eyes History Home Look

We wonder if we will be the first generation in American history to leave our children with fewer opportunities and a less prosperous nation than the one we inherited.

History Children Generation Nation

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

History Generation American President

American history is the story of Democratic malefactors and Republican heroes.

History Story American Heroes

In the great battle of Antietam, still the bloodiest day in American history, Union forces were led by Gen. George McClellan, an incredibly cautious man.

Day Man History Great

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 Media Story Year

Demagoguery is not unknown in American history.

History American Unknown Demagoguery

So many people of color who made major contributions to American history have been trapped in the purgatory of history.

Henry Louis Gates

History People Color American

By looking into more details of American history, we can make more sense of what's happening today.

Christoph Waltz

History Today Looking Details

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