The book begins and ends with the visits to give the impression of a tunnel into their ancestors and family history. I believe in going backwards into the past - I felt I was digging a tunnel back to the past.

India is a curious place that still preserves the past, religions, and its history. No matter how modern India becomes, it is still very much an old country.

France, and the whole of Europe have a great culture and an amazing history. Most important thing though is that people there know how to live! In America they've forgotten all about it. I'm afraid that the American culture is a disaster.

Since the dawn of time, traditional marriage - the union between one man and one woman - has been the building block of civilization, and at no point in our nation's history has that foundation been under more severe attack than now.

We know from our own history that democratic institutions take decades to mature, and we know from past conflicts that freedom is not free.

When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.

Time and time again, history has proved that the conservatives are right and the liberals are wrong.

Our history is that we can very aggressively, if necessary, and openly and democratically discuss our differences. We have a democratic history in which we come together and vote on these things.

I want to suggest a feeling. It's ridiculous to assume you can state an opinion. Somebody else can never relate to the lyric in the same way because their whole experience is different. You can only suggest, then people add their own history and experience to the lyrics.

But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and the history of scientific ideas, rather than laboratory experience.

Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule.

History's like a story in a way: it depends on who's telling it.

And it has some weight, I mean, the whole history of the gargoyles, that's some wonderful stuff.

Watergate was unique because it allowed the public to play its democratic role in expressing its outrage at the presidency. And as a result, for the first time in history a president resigned.

In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.