Since I travel so much it's always great to be home. There's nothing like getting to raid my own refrigerator at two in the morning.

If I had been elected president in 1948 history would be vastly different. I believe we would have stemmed the growth of Big Government which had begun with the New Deal and culminated with the Great Society.

What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one of the great supporters of the humanities because you have people who don't want to study the social sciences because it's not profitable and now Newt as the highest-paid historian in American history may be an encouragement to people to study history.

Great men are usually the products of their times and one of the men developed by these times takes rank with the greatest railroad leaders in history.

I think there has been a great deal of valuable revisionism in women's history.

Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice.

Those nations have a very great responsibility at this juncture of the world's affairs for by throwing their joint weight into the scales of history on the right side they may tip the balance decisively in favour of peace.

It was one of those great miracles of history that they managed to smuggle an Enigma machines out to Britain just before they were invaded by the Nazis.

Optimists are usually wrong. But all the great change in history positive change was done by optimists.

The great drama of Russian history has been between its state and society. Put simply Russia has always had too much state and not enough society.

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

If you read about Mussolini or Stalin or some of these other great monsters of history they were at it all the time that they were getting up in the morning very early. They were physically very active. They didn't eat lunch.

The Jews' greatest contribution to history is dissatisfaction! We're a nation born to be discontented. Whatever exists we believe can be changed for the better.

I realise that I do not change the course of history. I am an actor I do a movie that's the end of it. You have to realise we are just clowns for hire. After I had success it was great at first not to worry about money. It was on my mind when I was growing up.

I've never been nostalgic personally or politically - if the past was so great how come it's history?

When I read Thirteen Days I was moved by it. It was just a great time for the world in terms of looking back in history and seeing how we got ourselves into trouble and how we got ourselves out of trouble.

The great and abiding lesson of American history particularly the cold war is that the engine of capitalism the individual is mightier than any collective.