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

“Americans Never Quit. We never surrender. We never hide from history. We Make History.-John McCain”

“White Americans cannot deny their long history of abusive transactions with people of color. These offenses, it should be noted out of fairness, can be explained in part by the fact that no other sizable national state has ever been formed from the confluence of so many diverse ethnic streams. All our heterogeneous ferment no doubt made contentiousness inevitable.”

“You know, if you're an American and you're born at this time in history especially, you're lucky. We all are. We won the world history Powerball lottery.”

“The British are the only people in history crass enough to have made revolutionaries out of Americans.”

“George W. Bush is the worst President in all of American history.”