Jon Meacham
Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES While passage of this legislation will do nothing to bring back Carlie Brucia and other children who... KATHERINE HARRIS 9/11 changed us, in indescribable personal ways, but also by forever altering our downtown community... JANE ROSENTHAL JON MEACHAM It is important that we celebrate them coming home and appreciate this as our freedom. They are will... BOB LIEBER My heart goes out to victims and survivors of the Hurricane Katrina tragedy and to their families. T... ELLEN TAUSCHER CHUCK NORRIS BOB SCHIEFFER "Patriotic families do more than fly our country's flag and vote. They pray for the brave men and wo... TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN Imagine the feelings of victims' families as they read the list and see the names of victims alongsi... GREVILLE JANNER ANNA C. SALTER TONY BLAIR Any era in our culture that looks back and perceives history says as much about us as it does the hi... JAMES HALEY DENIS LEARY DENIS LEARY BOB BECKEL BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH A. PHILIP RANDOLPH PETER BERGEN History is about ordinary people living their ordinary lives, just as we do today, while all around ... VICKY ADIN DAN SAVAGE We are praying for their full and speedy recovery. Our thoughts are with their families and their lo... TRENT DUFFY For the families and parents of the victims there has not been one iota of accountability or respons... SALLY REGENHARD How much of our lives, good and bad, should we credit to our personal decisions, and how much is jus... J.D. VANCE Junior is a man who works full time as a volunteer for the community, ... He is kind, compassionate,... GEORGE FERGUSON WILLIAM JAMES Have we entered an era where our lives can be destroyed by a pack of wolves hacking at their keyboar... MARK COFFEY CHARLES MACKAY On the Ridgeway path, aged nine or ten, was where for the first time I realized the power a person m... HELEN MACDONALD WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT And if you can’t shape your life the way you want, at least try as much as you can not to degrade ... CONSTANTINOS P. CAVAFIS FANNIE FLAGG College dropouts with significant debt struggle with repayment over the course of their lives and do... HANK JOHNSON SENATOR JOHN KERRY TINA BROWN DAN LIPINSKI Dive into the river of the present, but don't thrash about, go with the flow. JIM GENOVESE The relevance for 9/11 is that what 9/11 marked was the beginning of a struggle in which the terrori... DICK CHENEY As far as I'm concerned, Dennis Rader does not deserve to live. I want him to suffer as much as he m... BEVERLY PLAPP Technology is as much a part of their lives as it is part of our lives. EVAN KOHLMANN The events of 9/11 had a massive effect on me, like everyone, and I wanted to use my position as a f... PAUL GREENGRASS MICHELLE MALKIN Each of these parents has felt a calling to help other families. It has become a driving point in th... BRAD DENNIS I have stayed true to that first idea that people can have a day in their lives that is very importa... VICTORIA WOOD We're going to address this with the same force and intensity as we addressed 9/11. EDIE LUTNICK As Americans after 9/11, we're much more united, together as a nation, and we got stronger, bett... YAKOV SMIRNOFF It was a completely different time for me. Now, the children are all grown ... They are all starting... MICHAEL WALKER MATT DAMON Life does not stand still for families and local communities when our brave men and women are deploy... MARK PRYOR CARLOS CASTANEDA What part of 9/11 is big? If the future continues to reinterpret the past, it could be argued that 9... DAVID MILCH It is a vitally important case from our point of view to ensure the Muslim community is able to have... MASSOUD SHADJAREH The pages of history are red with the blood of illuminated "saints" who were murdered by their relig... CHRISTOPHER S. HYATT Great men are usually the products of their times and one of the men developed by these times takes ... JOHN MOODY WILLIAM J. CLINTON We can never fully repay the debt of our proud nation to those who have laid down their lives for ou... SUSAN COLLINS DONALD WUERL DAVID REMNICK When Freemasons vainglory on their deeds during the French Revolution, they forget that many innocen... ROBIN SACREDFIRE It's time to start thinking of parents and families as community builders and not just as service re... DEBBIE OLIVER Our first priority is life-saving missions to get all the people that are victims that are stranded ... DAN CRAIG Black Lives Matter is proving itself to seek only one end - and that is discord, alienation among Am... DAVID A. CLARKE, JR. They are taught to be in a pleasant place ... to fill their lungs as much as they can and exhale ver... HOWARD PAYTON The most successful families embrace and elevate their family history, particularly their failures, ... BRUCE FEILER Our men and women in uniform put their lives on the line for our nation every day; they should not h... MARK PRYOR JOHN STEINBECK PANKAJ MISHRA ERIK ERIKSON (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON At a certain point in their historical lives, social classes become detached from their traditional ... ANTONIO GRAMSCI DANIEL CRAIG ORHAN PAMUK How many of us suffered to death?RIXA WHITE After 9/11 we couldn't have had enough airplanes for the people who were volunteering to go. Now wit... WAYNE NEWTON Mr. Bush's performance last week will rank as one of the worst ever during a dire national emergency... BOB HERBERT A lot of Christians look at Hollywood as the ultimate evil. But what it did for me is it sharpened m... JONATHAN JACKSON THEODORE ROOSEVELT Americans have been bombarded by charitable requests as a result of the record-breaking number of de... LISA CAPUTO ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH HONORE DE BALZAC Passage would bring relief to millions of small-business owners and their families. It would certain... DAN DANNER JIM RAMSTAD C.G. JUNG IAN SMITH Parents with meager means have the same aspirations for their children as other parents. Children fr... MARK SANFORD MADELEINE ALBRIGHT Today, smartphones, tablets, and the Internet have allowed people to conduct business from anywhere ... RENEE ELLMERS It was the closest time in our department where firemen risked their lives. It was the most impressi... DAVID GARRISON TIM KAINE GEORGE ELIOT He believes what he believes and he does what he does because he is genuinely and sincerely committe... BRADFORD BERENSON JAMES MADISON We're going to be focused on the last days of life, making it as meaningful and as graceful for the ... LINDA GHOLSTON And our people are winning the hearts and minds of the citizens, ... Iraqi people would run out and ... JEB HENSARLING There's no doubt that we have, as we always do in the nation, reacted to the reality of 9/11 here in... JAMES LOY KARL ROVE A lot of history is just dirty politics cleaned up for the consumption of children and other innocen... RICHARD REEVES We have tears in our eyes ROALD DAHL I never reached that point. But I can see where families can get that far. It tests your coping skil... JENNIFER OWEN ELVIS MITCHELL
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I believe history will come to view 9/11 as an event on par with November 22, 1963, the date on whic... 
God bless and help all the victims and patriots of 9/11, from the families of Flight 93 passengers t... 
The Iraq war was fought by one-half of one percent of us. And unless we were part of that small grou... 
We mute the realization of malevolence- which is too threatening to bear - by turning offenders into... 
In retrospect, the Millennium marked only a moment in time. It was the events of September 11 that m... 
'Rescue Me' will explore the lives of firefighters through their relationships with each other, thei... 
'Rescue Me' will explore the lives of firefighters through their relationships with each other, thei... 
Ever since 9/11, our intelligence agencies, as part of the 'war on terror,' have expanded th... 
We're living through a time where we are fighting wars fostered by politics, admittedly not on t... 
We seek the right to play our part in advancing the cause of national defense and national unity. Bu... 
More than a decade and half after 9/11, U.S. military actions in countries such as Syria, Iraq and A... 
Like it or not children are being raised by gay and lesbian parents all over America - as many as 10... 
Hardly ever can a youth transferred to the society of his betters unlearn the nasality and other vic... 
Much as the sage may affect to despise the opinion of the world, there are few who would not rather ... 
We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more im... 
...nobody was ever really ready to turn off their mother's machine, no matter what they thought; to ... 
Supporting the troops means paying attention to their needs both in the field and at home. It means ... 
I'm impressed with how 'Newsweek's' outstanding staff has continued to put out a liv... 
On this Veterans Day, let us remember the service of our veterans, and let us renew our national pro... 
Are your kids learning the right lessons about 9/11? Ten years after Osama bin Laden's henchmen ... 
At that time they were thinking of themselves as barbarians, ... Suddenly the Brothers Grimm came al... 
“Personal history must be constantly renewed by telling parents, relatives, and friends everything... 
Let me say this as clearly as I can: No matter how sharp a grievance or how deep a hurt, there is no... 
At the parish level, where the church lives and moves and breathes, that's where we need to be e... 
My time as editor has been overlapped by a crisis - a prolonged, labyrinthine, tragic, seemingly non... 
Time is more complex near the sea than in any other place, for in addition to the circling of the su... 
No Muslim country has ever done as much as Turkey to make itself over in the image of a European nat... 
Babies control and bring up their families as much as they are controlled by them; in fact the famil... 
The subject matter is very tricky. It's about the Munich massacre and what Mossad did afterwards... 
when we reach the point when our lives take on their final shape as in a novel we can identify our h... 
The idea that our natural resources were inexhaustible still obtained, and there was as yet no real ... 
Sometimes, how others look at it must not be how you should see it! Sometimes, how it means to other... 
Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman&... 
Our nation owes a debt of gratitude to the 9/11 Commission members for their valuable service and im... 
About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the senseles... 
We've spent a lot of time talking about the new hospital, but every day we're continuing to provide ... 
When Hillary served in the Senate, I saw her work day and night as a member of the Armed Services Co... 
During a time of war, we ask our troops to give their best even to the point of sacrificing their ow... 
It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures... 
Such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incomp... 
Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 in the attacks and prepared for war; liberals saw the savager... 
I thought that, as a black audience member, I would like to see something that reflected an experien... 
Attacks on a politician's identity - questioning Romney's religion, say, or Obama's birt... 
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More than 150 heads of state attended the UN Summit, giving New Yorkers a chance to get in touch wit... 
I don't care about wealth. What seems to be upsetting is institutionalizing the advantages that ... 
Insomnia is my greatest inspiration. 
'Swagger' would be the word for 'Dirt On My Boots.' With the real funky drum loop an... 
I can be a traditionalist but also play with Luke Bryan and get the crowd to go crazy. I think that ... 
There's something real in women's intuition. It's an accurate signpost for decision maki... 
Many students graduate from college and professional schools, including those of social work, nursin... 
Owners who buy aggressive dogs for security may be kidding themselves: The chances that the victim o... 
I was born in March 1949, a post war baby boomer. 
A tiny little baby!' says Tam. 'People look at me like I'm an animal. People who don't know me judge... 
I'd like to repeat the advice that I gave you before, in that I think you really should make a radic... 
Happiness [is] only real when shared 
You can lay down and die, or you can get up and fight, but that's it -- there's no turning back. 
Yeah, that's the ticket. 
I would still rather be in Silicon Alley. I like the West Coast also, but it's sort of fragmente... 
Goats are the cable talk show panelists of the animal world, ready at a moment's notice to inter... 
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First of all, this whole idea of this one percent versus the 99 percent, it's a false statistic.... 