American Quotes

Stealing is stealing. I don't care if it's on the Internet or you're breaking into a warehouse somewhere - it's theft.

Our alliances and our credibility are crucial elements of our working capital in advancing America's interests in the world, and they have been eroded over the last four years.

Judiciary is where my passion is.

I'm an old trial lawyer.

I'm a gun owner.

A victim is a victim is a victim. We should stop setting up standards that say we will have one standard of law enforcement for one group of victims but not for another.

A lot of people in my state of Vermont are gun owners.

The American public is sick and tired of being lied to.

When the going gets tough, let the tough get going.

Give me a lead of 14-0 at halftime and I will dictate the final score.

There are no shortcuts in life - only those we imagine.

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.

When something is truly funny, it's funny all the time.

I make fun wherever I go... If I go to a restaurant by myself, rest assured, people will be talking about it. I always have a great deal of fun being with people. It's part of the journey.

Why can't we build orphanages next to homes for the elderly? If someone were sitting in a rocker, it wouldn't be long before a kid will be in his lap.

There's probably a little greater case for pessimism than optimism. But I do not rule out optimism.

It is hard to cement any relations with any country based on promises that may not be deliverable.

When I look at Social Security, I consider it the most important social program in the United States, arguably the most successful program in the world.

Iraqis have held elections and have recently put together their government, all encouraging developments.

Drawing on President Bush's reform plan, which would allow citizens to transfer part of their Social Security contributions into personal accounts, an alteration of the current system is needed to make necessary change.

When artists make art, they shouldn't question whether it is permissible to do one thing or another.

The thinking of John Cage derived from Duchamp and Dada. I was not interested in that.

The system is the work of art; the visual work of art is the proof of the System. The visual aspect can't be understood without understanding the system. It isn't what it looks like but what it is that is of basic importance.

The other great development has been in photography, but that too was influenced by Conceptual art.

The artist is seen like a producer of commodities, like a factory that turns our refrigerators.

Minimal art went nowhere.

In my case, I used the elements of these simple forms - square, cube, line and color - to produce logical systems. Most of these systems were finite; that is, they were complete using all possible variations. This kept them simple.

I was not interested in irony; I wanted to emphasize the primacy of the idea in making art.

I didn't want to save art - I respected the older artists too much to think art needed saving. But I knew it was finished, even though, at that time, I didn't know what I would do.

I believe that the artist's involvement in the capitalist structure is disadvantageous to the artist and forces him to produce objects in order to live.