Ours is an open and accepting society, and has historically provided an avenue for lawful immigration to all those willing to accept the responsibilities of citizenship.
Spencer Bachus

Priesthood is not a convenient, historically conditioned form of Church organisation, but is rooted in the Incarnation, in the priesthood and mission of Christ himself.
Arthur Middleton

So always, if we look back, concern for face-to-face morality, and its modern emphasis on justice as well, have historically evolved as religious issues.
Huston Smith

Society historically has a difficult time with the concept of something new and foreign that shakes up our comfortable views, especially if it involves the very volatile question of sexual identity.
Mercedes Ruehl

Still the question remains of what actually speaks in a poem, if not subjectivity as historically constructed.
Thomas Harrison

Tech executives have historically been owners of significant portions of their companies' stock so there is a propensity for them to diversify as a rule.
David Coleman

The American public historically was really not part of the stock market.
Ron Chernow

The biggest problem in South Africa is that we have a disrupted timeline. Historically, politically, spiritually, economically, in people's minds, in people's heads.
Abdullah Ibrahim

The candidate out front on Labor Day has historically been the one who stayed ahead in November.
Peter Jennings

The Congress has historically played covert communal politics in order to create what in India we call vote banks where you pit one community against another and so on in order to secure votes.
Arundhati Roy

The difficulties of conducting espionage against the Soviet Union in the Soviet Union were such that historically the Agency had backed away from the task.
Aldrich Ames

The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
James Madison

The party line is that stocks historically have outperformed all other investment plans.
Jim Cramer

The United States has long thought of itself as the land of infinite plenty, and historically we did have abundant resources. But now we are gradually exhausting our fisheries, our topsoil, our water. On top of that, we're coming to the end of world resources.
Jared Diamond

The United States is historically a nation of immigrants.
Charles Rangel

The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.
John F. Kennedy

There's always that argument to make - that you're in better company historically if people don't understand what you're doing.
Elliott Smith

We are going to make sure that there is high-speed broadband available to everyone, and affordable to people historically kept out of it. It means they have not just access, but can also understand how to buy low-cost, affordable computers.
Ben Hecht

We know that second terms have historically been marred by hubris and by scandal.
David R. Gergen

We modern Marxists regard socialism as a historically brief transitional stage between feudalism and capitalism, necessary only in backward countries.
John McCarthy