American Quotes

Nothing changes more constantly than the past; for the past that influences our lives does not consist of what actually happened, but of what men believe happened.

Heroes are created by popular demand, sometimes out of the scantiest materials, or none at all.

Your world is as big as you make it.

Within a month I announced I was going to start this initiative: A World of Women for World Peace.

When you have this many losses, you don't have a following.

Well, I happen to believe all business is female business.

We're going to have to look very seriously at what we're doing right or wrong because we just keep losing.

We have to think about the future and what it is we want to accomplish from this party.

We can't go all over the world killing people because we disagree with them.

This was the first time a woman in Dallas had won public office of any kind - even women questioned whether or not I was qualified, whether or not I could take it.

There is not an issue that a woman cannot bring a perspective to.

There are still traces of discrimination against race and gender, but it's a lot different than when I started out. It just comes quietly, slowly, sometimes so quietly that you don't realize it until you start looking back.

Right after 9/11 there was a magazine with a cover of kids, mostly 12-14 year-olds, who were being trained for military combat. I thought that this had just gone too far.

Our second phase was to develop a school curriculum that teaches tolerance, respect for differences, conflict resolution, anger management, and other attributes of peace.

Our first phase was inviting all the women Ambassadors who were here from other countries and trying to get in touch with all the peace centers around the country in order to focus on increasing the volume and activity toward peace.

It takes ground activity to stimulate that Black vote.

I try hard to convince them it's important - but there's a history of discomfort with minorities voting in some parts of this country, so most especially the older people have to get accustomed to it.

I said we needed to organize women around the world to push peace.

I came up in a family oriented towards the sick, so I always felt an obligation for doing something.

Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business.

During the election, I had three male opponents and we went into a runoff. The front runner for the men was a native of Dallas who had run at large before, but I had a higher profile than him from my community service.

Dallas was a Black and White society at that time; it didn't have the diversity it has now.

As lawmakers, we must assure the people of America that our nation will not experience the nightmare of the 2000 presidential election.

I'm not the only one who feels the sting of continually losing.

The health effects of air pollution imperil human lives. This fact is well-documented.

All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business.

The goal for me is always to have the opportunity to work in different genres. This is a great and exciting time in my career, where I can have the opportunity to work in different genres, and also I recognize there's not a lot of actors who have that opportunity and I'm grateful for it.

One of the skills I had to learn and become proficient in is kissing a man. I had never kissed a man. Will Smith did it in his movies, so did Jake Gyllenhaal, and I figured it was my time. So it was me and Steve Carell - fantastic.

My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining.

If you check your ego at the door when it comes to comedy, you've got a pretty good shot at making a great movie that you can commit yourself to, you can jump off the proverbial cliff with, and have a great time, and the audiences respond to that.