Hollywood has a history of raising expectations beyond Washington's reach of appealing to the very American desire to mythologize political leaders particularly the president.
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.
American policy seems to be wed to a perpetual state of war. Why? History shows that the world will always be in flux or turmoil with different peoples competing for visibility and power. The U.S. cannot fix the fate of every nation.
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.
No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then and it is misremembered now.
I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.
American history is longer larger more various more beautiful and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
President Barack Obama has stood watch over the greatest job loss in modern American history. And that my friends is one inconvenient truth that will haunt this President throughout history.
The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture and the wild bats flapped out.
No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.