All Quotes

Historically, China is not a nation of sportsmen. We traditionally put more emphasis on being close to nature than pushing endlessly to excel. A philosophy that values tranquil contemplation of the landscape cannot easily be adapted to the Olympic slogan of 'higher, stronger, faster.'
‐‐ Ai Weiwei

Historically, Congress hasn't paid much attention to the confines the Constitution establishes.
‐‐ Tim Griffin

Historically courts in this country have been insulated. We do not look beyond our borders for precedents.
‐‐ Sandra Day O'Connor

Historically, defense spending cuts have preceded increased international turmoil as America's global enemies sense a failure of will.
‐‐ Ben Shapiro

Historically, diversity has been a real issue for superhero comics - so we need to do something about it, crafting strong, modern heroes for a modern audience.
‐‐ Adam Christopher

Historically, epics are set in Africa or Asia or the Wild West, but if you make an epic today it's hard to disassociate from the contemporary realities of those places.
‐‐ Baz Luhrmann

Historically, filmmakers always fall in love with every frame, but now that even neophytes are given final cut, this love affair carries with it serious economic implications.
‐‐ Peter Bart

Historically, foreign powers have always been the ones to keep Latin nations divided.
‐‐ Evo Morales

Historically, Heathrow has been something of a joke, outweighed by its excellent connections. We have to aspire to having an airport at Heathrow with two runways which is a world-class airport. It's a big challenge.
‐‐ Philip Hammond

Historically, Hollywood comedy has arrived in skinny envelopes. From fence post Buster Keaton to herky-jerky Jerry Lewis to wiry nerve-bundle Woody Allen to hung-loose Richard Pryor to whippy contortionist Jim Carrey, its comics and clowns have tended to be sliced thin and bendable.
‐‐ James Wolcott

Historically, I believe I was correct in refusing to answer their questions.
‐‐ Pete Seeger

Historically, I come from Jewish history. I had the classic upbringing in the Yeshiva, learning, learning, and more learning.
‐‐ Elie Wiesel

Historically, I'm not a great patient when it comes to slowing down.
‐‐ Michael Keaton

Historically, I think you can really judge a person by their shoes.
‐‐ Edgardo Osorio

Historically, if you look at great civilizations, why do they crumble? Is it because of what's outside or because of something internal? It's always internal. It is.
‐‐ Phylicia Rashad

Historically, if you look at people like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, people with disposable incomes have always been agricultural innovators.
‐‐ Sandra Lerner

Historically, in India, the strange fact was that the equity owner was not taking as much hit as the lender. Therefore, if we restore the first principle of economics, that first the equity owner needs to take the hit and then the lender, we will get a good solution.
‐‐ Uday Kotak

Historically, in my generation, all of my heroes and heroines have had issues and problems. We all do.
‐‐ Anita Baker

Historically, Islam was hijacked about 20 or 30 years after the Prophet and interpreted in such a way that the ruler has absolute power and is accountable only to God. That, of course, was a very convenient interpretation for whoever was the ruler.
‐‐ Mohamed ElBaradei

Historically, Jews only accept converts rather than actively seeking them.
‐‐ David Novak

Historically, Labour has used technology as a form of control. We would use pagers and faxes to send out messages telling people what line to take. The key learning from the Obama campaign is to use technology to empower your supporters.
‐‐ Douglas Alexander

Historically, large-scale global trade has served two functions: 1) the exchange of goods between willing sellers and buyers described in Econ 101 textbooks; 2) as a tool of state aggrandizement, in which the private parties are stand-ins for governmental interests.
‐‐ Charles C. Mann

Historically, Macbeth is one of the greatest kings Scotland ever had. He was on the throne for 19 years, and he simply has this dreadful reputation because Shakespeare manipulated history for the benefit of James I, who was paying him to write the play to blacken Macbeth's name.
‐‐ David Hewson

Historically, maritime travelers had to pass around the entire mass of North and South America, including the bottom tip, the tempestuous Cape Horn, which was littered with shipwrecks.
‐‐ Alan Huffman

Historically, more media has been consumed sitting in front of the television than any other device. Controlling this screen has been the goal of major technology, consumer electronic, and telecommunications companies.
‐‐ Jay Samit

Historically, more people have died of religion than cancer.
‐‐ Dick Francis

Historically, NBCUniversal had brilliant people, but some of them didn't do a very good job of working together.
‐‐ Steve Burke

Historically, opposition to immigration in the United States has been racially and religiously motivated in the ugliest, nastiest way possible.
‐‐ Grover Norquist

Historically, over the last two or three hundred years, the relationship that we've had with money as a society - having money, talking about money - has been a little bit of a shameful thing. Splashing money about is clearly wrong, but there's nothing wrong about giving it back.
‐‐ Arpad Busson

Historically, people of color and the Diaspora have been at the bottom of the barrel, even as it relates to immigration. If we don't engage in the discussion, then what is it that we're saying to people? That we don't care?
‐‐ Marcia Fudge

Historically, philanthropy has been something that you do when you turn 65, and you are retired, and you have spent your life accumulating your financial resources, and now you finally have time to do it. But because of the Internet revolution, that in turn revolutionized economic growth and wealth generation.
‐‐ Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

Historically, privacy was almost implicit, because it was hard to find and gather information. But in the digital world, whether it's digital cameras or satellites or just what you click on, we need to have more explicit rules - not just for governments but for private companies.
‐‐ Bill Gates

Historically, professors have defended tenure as a way to protect their individualistic thought. But tenure can also be used as a club to wield against the powerless.
‐‐ Ben Shapiro

Historically, San Franciscans have not valued street trees as much as other communities have.
‐‐ Gavin Newsom

Historically, science and society have gone separate ways, although society has provided the funds for science to grow, and in return, science has given society all the material things it enjoys.
‐‐ Renato Dulbecco

Historically, software for business was seen as unsexy because the products were seen as so poor - they provided such a poor user experience.
‐‐ Justin Rosenstein

Historically speaking, institutions are slow to change and usually resistant to any sudden moves - churches especially so.
‐‐ Gene Robinson

Historically speaking, the French economy was largely driven by the demand side.
‐‐ Emmanuel Macron

Historically, terrorism falls in a category different from crimes that concern a criminal court judge.
‐‐ Jurgen Habermas

Historically, the 19th century is defined by annexations and internal turmoil. For instance, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848 gave more than half of Mexican territory to the United States.
‐‐ Ilan Stavans

Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled.
‐‐ Michael Crichton

Historically the director has been the key creative element in a film and we must maintain that. We must protect that, in spite of the fact that there is new technology that's continually trying to erode that.
‐‐ John Frankenheimer

Historically, the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family.
‐‐ Stephen Covey

Historically, the French have had a romantic attachment to their bikes. Though the first functioning two-wheeler is thought to have been invented by a German in 1817, it was the French who popularized and marketed the device in the 1860s, giving it the name 'bicycle.'
‐‐ Elaine Sciolino

Historically, the host nations do well in Euro 2000.
‐‐ Trevor Brooking

Historically, the judicial branch has often been the sole protector of the rights of minority groups against the will of the popular majority.
‐‐ Diane Watson

Historically, the Justice Department has been Congress' ally in fighting wrongdoing in government, but under this Justice Department and Eric Holder, rather than being the people's attorney, Eric Holder sees himself as the president's attorney and he'll do anything to defend the president.
‐‐ Blake Farenthold

Historically, the minority party in Congress votes against raising the debt limit, forcing the majority party to whip its members into casting politically painful votes in favor.
‐‐ Peter Welch

Historically, the mobile industry has been focused on the consumer, getting better performance and throughput to their devices.
‐‐ Hans Vestberg