American Quotes

The trite saying that honesty is the best policy has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.

I tremble for my country when I hear of confidence expressed in me. I know too well my weakness, that our only hope is in God.

I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.

In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength.

I have been up to see the Congress and they do not seem to be able to do anything except to eat peanuts and chew tobacco, while my army is starving.

Get correct views of life, and learn to see the world in its true light. It will enable you to live pleasantly, to do good, and, when summoned away, to leave without regret.

To preserve liberty it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them.

You can't beat The Beatles, you join 'em.

Retire? Not on your life. I have no plans to stop singing. What are you going to do when you love music? It's a terrible disease. You can't stop. Of course, I'd like to get off the road.

I'm always happy when I'm cleaning, and besides, I had just found out that I was going to have a baby.

I really don't have that many run-ins. People by and large are very nice to me.

You know, in a business, you have to operate on the basis of voluntary investment by individuals in a cause. With government, there is no voluntary effort to invest capital. It's just taken and invested. And the same accountability is not at play. The same natural forces in the economy are not at pl

Whether it's a penalty or a tax, it's all one in the same. It's coming out of somebody's hard-earned money in their pocketbooks and that's the point. So in some ways, to me, it's a distinction without a difference.

When you have less revenue coming in the door, you have more money going out the door. You have to find ways of trimming.

When you have a country that's been accustomed to government spending at a certain level, it is really hard to ratchet it back.

We ought to have more people who believe in constitutionally limited government. We have to have more people come to Congress with that mindset. I think we can make this a better place, if, when elections happen, we support candidates who share that philosophy.

We can't legislate the creation of jobs, but we can legislate things that will allow jobs to be created.

The Tea Party movement as I perceive it is all about recognizing the difference between state and federal powers. And that there are limits to federal power that need to be respected.

The Tea Party has an important voice in the country and now they have a voice in the U.S. Senate.

The American people want a balanced budget. They want Congress to stop this barbaric practice of perpetual deficit spending. It really, if you think about it, is a form of taxation without representation. We fought a war over that issue and we won that war.

My political views have since I was a kid someway or another reflected the concerns of Tea Party movement.

It is simply science fiction fantasy to say that, if you do not raise the debt ceiling, that everything is going to collapse.

I'm nobody's deputy. I am who I am. I'm my own person.

I would vote against raising the national debt ceiling. Again, this is about mortgaging the future of unborn generations of Americans. It's a form of taxation without representation. I don't think we can do that.

I want to be one that is willing to do things that are not easy but that need to be done.

I think I was about 30 before I realized that not every family talks about the presentment clause on a regular basis.

I think declaring a no fly zone over foreign soil is tantamount to an act of war.

I don't want a government shutdown. I don't think anyone does.

When you reach a certain status in Hollywood, you have to play a lot of games to stay in the limelight. It becomes more about being famous than being an actor.

It's difficult to get away from the shadow of a TV character.