American Quotes

A Swedish newspaper reporter called and said, You've been awarded the Prize. I was quite sure it was a practical joke.

Life's a hobby.

I believe I am a person with unusual talents. I think I'd be a liar or stupid if I were to deny that.

Being successful at a very young age gave me the confidence and the capability to try out other things.

I have many shortcomings. I feel very lucky to have been able to have what I've had.

Although I am a public figure, I'm still a little shy. I don't think my own personality is important. I prefer to keep some small dosage of privacy.

All of civility depends on being able to contain the rage of individuals.

The Iranians excel at identifying potential recruits for terrorist attacks, and then recruiting and training them.

The 'Axis of Evil' was - and is - very real, as the tyrants of Iran, Iraq, and North Korea knew full well.

So be it. God created profoundly fallible creatures on this earth, and human history is mostly the story of error and accident.

Like Afghanistan before it, Iraq is only one theater in a regional war. We were attacked by a network of terrorist organizations supported by several countries, of whom the most important were Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Saudi Arabia.

It's hard not to be in favor of taking down monsters.

Iranians hate Arabs. They're a fairly well-educated population and they have centuries of experience with self-government.

If you're convinced that you face bad options, then by all means take the least bad.

I think Hadley is to Rice as Scowcroft was to Kissinger; not inclined to think or act independently.

Fighting back against Iran is difficult and costly. No American president from Carter to Obama has been willing to take it on.

China is a civilization pretending to be a nation.

I try to make the good days great and take something positive from the days I'm not feeling good - work on technique or something like that.

We sought justice because equal pay for equal work is an American value. That fight took me ten years. It took me all the way to the Supreme Court. And, in a 5-4 decision, they stood on the side of those who shortchanged my pay, my overtime, and my retirement just because I am a woman.

The Supreme Court told me that I should have filed a complaint within six months of the company's first decision to pay me less even though I didn't know about it for nearly two decades.

The first bill that President Obama signed into law was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. I think it says something about his priorities that the first bill he put his name on has my name on it too. As he said that day with me by his side, 'Making our economy work means making sure it works for ever

Some of you may know my story: How for nineteen years, I worked as a manager for a tire plant in Alabama. And some of you may have lived a similar story: After nearly two decades of hard, proud work, I found out that I was making significantly less money than the men who were doing the same work as

In the end, I didn't get a dime of the money I was shortchanged.

Because women still earn just 77 cents for every dollar men make. Those pennies add up to real money.

Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.

Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.

Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.

Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.

I never met anyone who didn't have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood?

I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.