American Quotes

We do participate in the government programs, like probably 95 percent of farmers do. People who aren't familiar with the agriculture industry, you know, try and make that look like something exceptional.

This election could come down to just a handful of votes. It could come down to just one vote.

Now in business we do a cost benefit analysis before we make policy changes. Washington should as well.

I was able to promote a strong defense budget when it could have been cut a lot more severely.

I think the main thing we can do, whether you agree or not, I don't think that's the real issue, the real issue is this November and there's an election.

I mean, if someone asked for my birth certificate, I'd get my baby book and hand it out and say 'Here it is.'

I don't think that any political party should claim Jesus as being a part of a political party.

I believe that President Obama is here for a reason, but that doesn't mean that he has to stay there next year. The American people have an opportunity to have a say and so I think we just have to do what we think is right - and see what the outcome is. God's got a plan.

A woman should have the right to carry a gun.

Kids are capable of handling a lot more than you think if you are willing to commit some time.

Deficits. Most people of knowledge say it's the biggest single problem facing the economic free world.

Scientists care deeply about their place in that culture, and their contribution to it.

One works in one's laboratory - one's chaotic laboratory - with students and colleagues, doing what one most wants to do - then all this happens! It is overwhelming.

One is that we stand - my two confreres and I - in some degree as representatives of a great number of fellow workers over the entire world, who are enthusiastically active in this field of ours.

But what is more, if we have succeeded in adding to the basic understanding of our universe and ourselves, we will have made a contribution to the totality of human culture.

Alfred Nobel was much concerned, as are we all, with the tangible benefits we hope for and expect from physiological and medical research, and the Faculty of the Caroline Institute has ever been alert to recognize practical benefits.

You read about somebody, and it doesn't really matter whether or not they really exist - the point is that you get into them like real characters.

Time is the most important thing there is. That is the only element that you can't withdraw from the situation and still have the situation exist. Everything depends on time.

The whole universe is based on rhythms. Everything happens in circles, in spirals.

The best way to express rhythm is music.

I'm like a child trying to do everything, say everything and be everything all at once.

After you start learning all about the mechanics of piloting a riverboat, you stop seeing all the pretty sunsets and you start thinking about the weather.

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

A bird in hand is a certainty. But a bird in the bush may sing.

The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.

Never a tear bedims the eye that time and patience will not dry.

Never a lip is curved with pain that can't be kissed into smiles again.

My ranch William S. Hart Park is for the benefit of the American Public of every race and creed.

I have amply provided for my son during my lifetime.