History never looks like history when you are living through it. It always looks confusing and messy, and it always feels uncomfortable.

They've never justified the need for this extra platform. The priority is the commercial, and then the history is secondary.

Biographical history, as taught in our public schools, is still largely a history of boneheads: ridiculous kings and queens, paranoid political leaders, compulsive voyagers, ignorant generals - the flotsam and jetsam of historical currents. The men who radically altered history, the great scientists and mathematicians, are seldom mentioned, if at all.

When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale.

Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are.

The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions.