In the 20th century there's was the long-running division in the Republican Party between what was known as Wall Street and Main Street Republicans. And sort of different expectations about the use of the federal government.
When I leave the office on January 20th, I will leave even more idealistic than I was the day I took the oath of office.
Who owns the NY Post? 20th Century Fox. Talk about vertical integration.
As time has gone on and we're at the end of the 20th century and major publishing is a big business, yes, of course we're going to get a lot of plain, mediocre trash. There are a lot of writers who get huge advances for books that don't go anywhere and they have to burn them somewhere or throw them away. I always think about all the poor trees that have been sacrificed.
I think that Malcolm X was the most remarkable historical figure produced by Black America in the 20th century.
The Olympic Movement is a 20th century religion. Where there is no injustice of caste, of race, of family, of wealth.
Humanistic values of equality and equal rights for all nations and individuals as crystallized in the principles of the United Nations Charter are mankind's great achievements in the 20th century.
As a 20th round pick nothing was handed to me in the minor leagues.
The 20th century peatlands ditching in Finland was the worst human environmental destruction action in Europe.
The record of poetry in the 20th century isn't all that great anyway. Most of the poets who weren't fascists were Stalinists.
Fidel Castro is one of the most inspiring leaders of the 20th century.
It seems to me that President Carter has earned his place as if not the worst president in history, the worst president of the 20th Century.
If I were called upon to identify briefly the principal trait of the entire 20th century. . . I would be unable to find anything more precise and pithy than to repeat once again: Men have forgotten God.
Charlie Chaplin is the greatest artist of the 20th century. He takes me from laughter to tears in seconds. And he was one of the very first funny men. It's like the original violins were made in Cremona and there's never been any better since. Sometimes the best come right off the bat.
The cell phone has transformed public places into giant phone-a-thons in which callers exist within narcissistic cocoons of private conversations. Like faxes, computer modems and other modern gadgets that have clogged out lives with phony urgency, cell phones represent the 20th Century's escalation of imaginary need. We didn't need cell phones until we had them. Clearly, cell phones cause not only a breakdown of courtesy, but the atrophy of basic skills.
One of my inspirations, Harry Houdini, remains an icon of the art because he defied our primal fears. His demonstrations in the early 20th century, especially his escape from the Chinese water torture cell, represented triumph over suffocation, drowning, disorientation and helplessness.
When people tell me that I became President on January 20th, 1981, I feel I have to correct them. You don't become President of the United States. You are given temporary custody of an institution called the Presidency, which belongs to our people.
I am now celebrating the 20th anniversary of the first request for my resignation. I look forward to many more.
Rush Limbaugh was the 20th hijacker. I hope his kidneys fail.
The moment in the account of Adam and Eve in the book of Genesis is when they realize they're naked and try and cover themselves with fig leaves. That seemed to me a perfect allegory of what happened in the 20th century with regard to literary modernism. Literary modernism grew out of a sense that, “Oh my god! I'm telling a story! Oh, that can't be the case, because I'm a clever person. I'm a literary person! What am I going to do to distinguish myself?. . . a lot of modernism does seem to come out of a fear of being thought an ordinary storyteller.