For most of our history no one dared to tell Americans 'you don't build that.'

I think it was my study of history that convinced me that the Democratic Party was more on the side of the average American.

Let me tell you never before in the history of this planet has anybody made the progress that African-Americans have made in a 30-year period in spite of many black folks and white folks lying to one another.

We have our own history our own language our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans.

September 11 was terrible but if one goes back over the history of the IRA what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible.

Obama has seen to the passage of the most radical legislation in recent American history and so-called 'progressives' should be thanking him for it - even as many of the rest of us rear in horror from its implications.

Nixon in 1968 unlike Obama 2008 was elected as a minority president with only 43 percent of the vote. Yet in 1972 he won what in some measures was the most lopsided election in American history with 61 percent.

What people forget is that the most radical thing about Obama is that he was the first black man in history to imagine that he could become president who was able to make other Americans believe it as well. Other than that he is a centrist just like I try to be. He's been bridging divisions his whole life.

So many people of color who made major contributions to American history have been trapped in the purgatory of history.

My father and I made genetics history. We were the first African-Americans and the first father and son anywhere to have their genomes sequenced.

Barack Obama is one of the greatest politicians in American history.

From tea parties to the election in Massachusetts we are witnessing the single greatest political pushback in American history.

Americans believe with all their heart the vast majority of them and the vast majority of Floridians that the United States of America is simply the single greatest nation in all of human history.

This is the greatest society in all of human history the greatest country ever. Many of the decisions being made in Washington today by both parties are threatening that greatness. And if we stay on this road we're on right now our children are going to be the first Americans ever to inherit a diminished country.

In a typical history book black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story.

Unlike any other leader in modern American history we are led today by a president that has decided to pit Americans against each other.

We wonder if we will be the first generation in American history to leave our children with fewer opportunities and a less prosperous nation than the one we inherited.

Black history is American history.

Throughout human history the American Idea has done more to help the poor than any other economic system ever designed.

In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins.

I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way.

Without question the Red Ryder BB gun is the most important gun in the history of American weaponry.

Americans are rising to the tasks of history and they expect the same of us.

I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.