American Quotes

My goal in the new administration is to engage all of the stakeholders, everyone who can help us meet the challenges of the 21st century, and ensure that we work together.

My daughter is, of course, perfect. Everyone's child is, but mine really is perfect. But I could not have raised her without my parents. From the time she was seven months until now, I have been a single parent.

Instead of sitting on the sidelines, President Obama has made it clear that the US is ready to lead a global effort to combat climate change.

I moderated a panel focusing just on women and the specific challenges that women entrepreneurs face. And we found that around the world, the challenges are the same, whether it is gaining access to capital, risk-taking, or the ability to expand beyond a small business and grow.

I just worry a lot. I'm a worrier. Michelle and Barack are really dear to me. I mean, I love them. And I don't want to see them get hurt. Just the nature of politics is hurtful. So every time they are hurt, I get hurt. It's a lot to ask of people, and it's a lot to see your friends go through. It's

I care so passionately about improving the quality of life for women and girls, not just here in the United States, but internationally as well. I am a single mom and I raised a daughter who is now a young adult.

For those that are working part time, in small businesses, or who are unemployed and do not currently have health insurance, we want to make sure that you are covered.

Financial regulatory reform is one of the top legislative priorities of the Obama Administration.

But if I were to sum up who Barack Obama is and how he plans to meet this moment with one word, that word would be 'responsibility.' Responsibility to each other, our families, our communities, our country, and our world.

As we try to compete in this global marketplace, we need to rebuild our infrastructure. We need to rebuild our schools. We need to make sure that teachers and first responders and veterans who are coming home from serving our country so proudly have jobs waiting for them.

There are certain things that Americans expect their government to do. Our infrastructure is vitally important. Putting people back to work with construction is important. Our roads, our bridges, our sewers, our waterways, our dams - this is what makes our country so special.

President Obama celebrates diversity, yet instinctively seeks common ground and builds on that common ground to make progress.

A new era of responsibility is here.

If left unchecked, global change will create violent conflict, torrential storms, shrinking coastlines, and irreversible catastrophe.

Our whole philosophy is one of transparency.

Given the daunting challenges that we face, it's important that president elect Obama is prepared to really take power and begin to rule day one.

When you're up against an electric band like that, it's like you're on two separate planets.

We really never know what we're gonna play when we get on stage.

Once we're inside a tune, we can do anything with it.

Musicians are always gigging and never have a chance to stop for a minute.

Jazz is there and gone. It happens. You have to be present for it. That simple.

If you already have a piece of music ingrained in your body, why would you not play it?

I'm not talking ideas, or even presentation. It's like in politics: You have to sell something to become an electric player - like your skin or your heart.

I don't like recording studios - except my own, which is just a little room above the garage.

I cannot say what I think is right about music. I only know the rightness of it.

To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all.

The blind date that has stood you up: your life.

It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.

If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they aren't like politicians at all, and our category of politicians stays unchanged; we know what politicians are like.

I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry.