I’m not going to say that every record I’ve put out was the greatest record in history, but I’d stand by even the bad ones. Don’t make excuses, make hits. – Pete Waterman
America has a long and proud history of providing safe harbor for refugees. We must continue to do so, but in a way that keeps America safe. – Peter T. King
I am trying to make clear through my writing something which I believe: that biography- history in general- can be literature in the deepest and highest sense of that term. – Robert Caro
What was very interesting to me about Clementine Hunter’s work is that she couldn’t read or write, and she has recorded history of the plantation life and the southern part of the U.S. – the cotton harvests, pecan picking, washing clothes, funerals, marriages – in pictures. – Robert Wilson
I wanted to tell a romantic and dark side of Ottoman history that was also slightly political, saying to the previous generation of writers, ‘Look, I’m interested in Ottoman things, and I’m not afraid of it, and I’m doing something creative.’ – Orhan Pamuk
My parents were interested in history and the world. My father read Graham Greene and Georges Simenon and was a strong trade unionist and Labour supporter. – Robert Harris
Take a newspaper account of Waterloo or Trafalgar, with all the small advertisements: it seems much more real than reading about it in a history book. – Patrick O’Brian
When President Obama entered the White House, the economy was in a free-fall. The auto industry: on its back. The banks: frozen up. More than three million Americans had already lost their jobs. And America’s bravest, our men and women in uniform, were fighting what would soon be the longest wars in our history. – Rahm Emanuel
At an incredibly divisive point in pop history, Donna Summer managed to create an undeniable across-the-board experience of mass pleasure – after ‘Bad Girls,’ nobody ever tried claiming disco sucked again. It set the template for what Michael Jackson would do a few months later with ‘Off The Wall.’ – Rob Sheffield
There’s a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history. – Penelope Lively
Bill and Hillary Clinton are the most investigated couple in American history – now the most thoroughly exonerated couple in American history. – Paul Begala
In the history of the prophetic biblical canon that starts with Genesis, the Koran is by far the most tolerant of the views of other religions. – Reza Aslan
The history of antitrust law enforcement shows that successful antitrust prosecutions have often strengthened and brought vitality to extremely large companies and businesses. – Robert Kennedy
No one knows exactly when or where the redwood entered the history of life on earth, though it is an ancient kind of tree and has come down to our world as an inheritance out of deep time. – Richard Preston
It’s much better to write a book and stick to the research – that’s history. In cinema, emotional truth and psychological truth is much more important. – Pawel Pawlikowski
I’m honored that I’m in history, but I don’t think it would mean anything if it doesn’t change anything. – Raha Moharrak
The Atlantic conference in the North Atlantic off Newfoundland is a dramatic moment in World War II history because for the first time, Roosevelt and Churchill are meeting face to face in this war. – Robert Dallek
In exchange for power, influence, command and a place in history, a president gives up the bulk of his privacy. – Roger Mudd
You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I’m innocent. You’ve got to believe I’m innocent. If you don’t, take my job. – Richard M. Nixon
We can today open wide the history of their administrations and point with pride to every act, and challenge the world to point out a single act stained with injustice to the North, or with partiality to their own section. – Robert Toombs
I’m a good son, a good father, a good husband – I’ve been married to the same woman for 30 years. I’m a good friend. I finished college, I have my education, I donate money anonymously. So when people criticize the kind of characters that I play on screen, I go, ‘You know, that’s part of history.’ – Samuel L. Jackson
If you gonna challenge my ways, know my history. Don’t put nobody in my face that don’t know about me, or they here to write an article on someone they thought was hot when they was hot. Come on, man. I been hot. – Raekwon
One of the greatest live recordings, I think, in the history of the world is Ray Charles in Atlanta… And they didn’t even have a big mobile recording thing set up. The word on the street was they only had like two microphones, one for the band and one for him. Perfect recordings. I think it’s mono. – Robbie Robertson
Today, as we look back on the history of our nation and take note of how far we have come as a people, we are reminded that we owe a great debt to those who fought valiantly for the freedoms that we easily take for granted. – Sam Brownback