Quotes About History

I'll tell you what colonial experience is.

The United States does not carry baggage from a colonial past as do European countries.

I think the Cold War was worse for Africa than colonialism.

Back in the days of the colonies, there were rules that were very good.

My people were homesteading in Colorado before Emancipation.

Blues became rock, rock became soul, and all of it was colorblind.

Americans want a nation-state: our own country with a history of freedom combined with responsibility.

Records come and go.

I don't have any particular desire to see words making a comeback. They are of their era, after all, and that is their identity - they form part of the linguistic color of a period.

I believe it is important for comedians to know who came before them.

I don't mind playing Nazis, but I'll only play them in comedies. I wouldn't play a serious Nazi.

There's a history of enslaved African-Americans having to make their slave masters comfortable. This business of what we call skinning and grinning - that is something African-Americans are very much cognizant of.

Looking back, I realize my favorite stories weren't in books, they were in comics. On top of being a history enthusiast, my father was also a comics fan, and he kept his stash in the top drawer of his dresser, in easy reach of a kid making a beeline to the bathroom.

I am not going to comment on what I did or did not say back in the late '90s.

Commerce and politics do not go with royalty, full stop.

The first commercial judge in Medina was a woman!

If we win, we'll make history, and I'll serve you on the Agriculture Committee.

Christianity is part of the common law.

My family played a part in bringing communism to Lebanon.

I was 6 when communism was finished.

Communism has not died. We naively thought in the '90s we had buried communism, but this is not true. It is not dead, and it will be coming back.

I come from a communist country. We learned nothing of lawyers, nothing about rights.

I want to be the first guy to reverse a communist revolution.

The existing U.N. can be found in the writings of early Communist leaders.