American Quotes

John Lennon was very irreverent and very intelligent.

I've spent an awful lot of my time in the air. I've had everything happen to me in a plane that could happen. Except a crash.

I was nuts about Elvis, like every girl in America.

I still sing because I love the sound of applause, because it's who I am, and because I still can.

I still don't look at myself as a star. I've always had a thankful heart.

I only wish Chet Atkins could be here for this joyous occasion.

I gave up my childhood for a career.

I believe I became one of the first singers to be launched via television exposure. I guess I was a new kind of musical stylist for a new kind of media.

A lot of people thought I'd died, because of your coverage, they know I'm still around.

I'm not used to introspection. I've never lingered on my feelings. The show must go on.

I wasn't aware of it at the time, but I was a big favorite with the Mafia.

I always felt that I was one of the women who helped lay the foundation for rock and roll. But I'd always been overlooked by the Hall of Fame.

For me, the martial arts is a search for something inside. It's not just a physical discipline.

All I can tell you is that you cannot make choices in your own career, either career choices or choices when you're actually working as an actor, based on trying to downplay or live up to a comparison with somebody else. You just can't do that. You have to do your own work based on your own gut, you

A fight can express things people might not be able to say with words.

A large part of my life revolves around my dad. Sometimes, I even feel a strong sense of connection, something very tangible when I learn something new in the martial arts.

You only have the burdens on you that you choose to put there.

I don't want to be remembered as 'the son of Bruce Lee'.

Immortality is to live your life doing good things, and leaving your mark behind.

Because we do not know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. And yet everything happens only a certain number of times. And a very small number really.

What they are doing is taking something that otherwise creates pollution and turning it into something useful.

We need to honor our troops who served and show our support by giving our men and women who served the best health care, the best educational opportunities, and the best job training available. They deserve nothing less.

We must use all the tools of American power in resolving disputes, including diplomacy. And we must have sufficient congressional debate and oversight before ever putting another U.S. solider in harm's way.

We all agree that we've got to bring these terrorists to justice and to make sure that they're never allowed to perpetrate such an evil act as they did. And so all of us are dealing with that. We know that the President has the authority to go to war under the War Powers Act.

Nine years ago on September 14, 2001, I placed the lone vote against the 'Authorization for Use of Military Force' - an authorization that I knew would provide a blank check to wage war anywhere, at any time, and for any length.

I wish the press were paying more attention to the erosion of the Constitution and the slippery slope that we're getting into, by giving up the right of the Congress to talk about when and how and where we go to war.

I told Mr. Nader today that a vote for Ralph Nader is really a vote for George Bush.

I am convinced that military action will not prevent further acts of international terrorism against the United States.

I am also deeply concerned with the widespread, often undiagnosed, incidents of PTSD and the alarming suicide rates amongst our returning soldiers.

As the daughter of a 25-year veteran of the armed forces, I am incredibly thankful for the sacrifices our women and men have made in Iraq, and continue to make in Afghanistan.