American Quotes

As a result, I've been portrayed as a cynical barbarian preying on the very clients I was charged to defend.

Well, the responsibility for maintaining a reliable transmission grid is one that's shared by an awful lot of players who have a role in the grid: Companies that either generate and transmit energy or just play the role of being the transmission systems or monitoring them.

Thousands across America are glued to their web cast to hear this. And actually, I've never met one human being who said that they had seen one of those.

There was a Republican majority of the Senate, and it tempered the nature of the nominations being made.

The issues and challenges surrounding nuclear non-proliferation are continuously evolving. They've changed dramatically at several junctures in recent memory.

The ideal ratio is one computer to every five students; we are nowhere close to that percentage in a lot of schools in America.

The federal government neither has the power to site transmission lines, nor do we build them. That's done, as people know, in their own communities. The siting decisions and the permitting is done at the local level, or by state governments if it's interstate in nature. And federal government - thi

The demand for electricity to have a strong, growing economy is too great to be simply offset by more conservation.

Sometimes we pay too much attention in Washington to public relations, as opposed to the substance.

Scholars and historians have dubbed the last 100 years the American Century, and I think there can be little doubt that the Council on Foreign Relations helped to make it so.

Putting the budget ahead of the policy is the wrong way to do it. It's too often the way it's done in Washington.

If you had a national grid with one operator, you had twenty or even a hundred operators, if you don't have the ability to compel people to observe high standards of conduct, then you run a greater risk.

I always wondered what hearing one's own obituary might sound like, and I sort of feel like I may have just heard part of it at least.

There is one confrontation scene toward the end of the picture. In the middle of the scene, I thought, That's Sean Connery! I don't know how else to describe Sean Connery. I still feel that way.

There are certain men and women who, from the minute they step in front of a camera, that's exactly where they belong. Connery's one.

The idea that you can make love and not war really is pretty neat. That thing in Korea, the thing in Israel - that's all over the world. There must be a new way of thinking.

The difficulty is capturing surprise on film.

People desire power. I don't know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them from most of the populace.

Once I looked into a mirror at my face I felt like it was completely convincing. I was Salieri.

Milos said, You're my first choice. From my point of view, that doesn't pay the rent. I said, Tell me what I have to do next because I'm busy painting my kitchen.

If these men decided that they have to go in there and fight, I want them to send their own children and grandchildren. I want them to not send a bunch of strangers' kids in there to fight and die.

I'm not going to just say nice things about everybody unless I mean it.

I'm just having a wonderful time. It's an interesting thing that I'm very comfortable with this material and I don't know why. Maybe it's because I did MacBeth.

I'm a very proud actor.

I'd like President Bush to think maybe there's another way to think, that maybe Kissinger was wrong when he says we had to go in there because he was wrong about Vietnam.

I'd like President Bush to get a gun in his hands. I'll go with him. I can't think of anything better than to die in place 's just beginning their lives.

I trust that the president will try, just give it one more shot, some revolutionary way of not doing this, of bringing all those kids back home safely.

I think creativity is spiritual. I absolutely believe that.

I really like to experiment. That's the only way I can work. It's instinctive.

I love parties. I love a good time.