The United States was the first country in the history of the world to be consciously created out of an idea - and the idea was liberty.

We need a new, deeper appreciation of the ethnic histories of the American people, not a reduction of American history to ethnic histories.

To his own children he was at once the ultimate voice of authority and, when time allowed, their most exuberant companion. He never fired their imaginations or made them laugh as their mother could, but he was unfailingly interested in them, sympathetic, confiding, entering into their lives in ways few fathers ever do. It was a though he was in league with them.

Number-one problem, Katrina was the worst disaster in the history of the United States. Number two, the lack of leadership by the president, FEMA (the Federal Emergency Management Agency ), the governor and the mayor.

the greatest strategic disaster in United States history.

Most tragic mistake in history occurred when the United States joined the U.N.