American Quotes

I hate people saying anything stupid. I don't really suffer fools very well at all. When people are acting like idiots, not that I'm not guilty of doing the odd idiotic thing myself from time to time, but when people say stupid things, it stresses me out.

Nobody criticizes the 'Mighty Ducks' trilogy and gets away with it. Nobody!

I'm not really the type to wear my heart on my sleeve. I would let someone know if I liked them, but it takes a while for me to fall in love.

You put him in front of 50,000 people, he's at home.

We know our son. We know he's not a pedophile like some of these newscasters are saying. That is not true.

We didn't make no mistakes. We didn't make no mistakes.

This is just the United States. All the rest of the countries, all over the world, are proud of Michael. It's here we have the most trouble out of them.

They're really nice kids. Michael is really raising them properly and right.

They didn't treat him right here. I know if I was him, I wouldn't come back.

In being strict, you were able to control.

If he hadn't done that interview with Bashir, he wouldn't be there now. That was the first time he ever did an interview like that. He was afraid of something like that all along. And it happened.

I'm never going to let nobody take those kids. They Michael's kids. They have no right to try to take those kids. It's going to be a big mess over that.

I fed them every day. So it was a papa that kept food on the table for them. I did that. I did my part.

I did tell security to make sure you stay and watch him pretty closely.

How could they call him wacko? He's sold more records than anybody in history.

He'll come back to visit, but not to stay, not to live.

He shouldn't be alone at a time like this. This is a special time for me to be around as much as I can. He needs his family and his friends and his fans.

Do you know how many plastic surgeries are done to the actors and actresses in Hollywood?

All I know is, he's a good kid, and he's done right all his life. And he always treats other people right.

It's all about the money.

Look at the coded language the Right is using against President Barack Obama. Openly calling him a liar in Congress, saying he is 'not a Christian, he was not born here, he is not one of us.' That makes addressing such issues trickier for the first African-American in the White House.

Great things happen in small places. Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Jesse Jackson was born in Greenville.

Keep hope alive!

Music of all arts should be expansive and inclusive.

In many ways, history is marked as 'before' and 'after' Rosa Parks. She sat down in order that we all might stand up, and the walls of segregation came down.

When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.

The law protects you from being abused. It doesn't threaten your lifestyle for someone else to have the right to exhibit their lifestyle.

A man who cannot be enticed by money or intimidated by the threat of jail or death has two of the strongest weapons that anyone has to offer.

America needs young people to be inspired to choose sacrifice over greed.

What is the American dream? The American dream is one big tent. One big tent. And on that big tent you have four basic promises: equal protection under the law, equal opportunity, equal access, and fair share.