American Quotes

I think any label is bad.

I had a white senator call me a rag head, and I had an African-American legislator call me a conservative with a tan.

I encourage people to find and use the power of their voices just as much when I do not agree with those voices as when I do agree with them.

I don't think we should focus on what church that person walks into .. I think we need to focus on what they do when they walk out of church.

For a bill to become law, it truly has to be the will of the people, and for a president to stop the will of the people and stop what you're trying to do in your state is not the role of Washington.

Contraception doesn't define a woman.

Boeing started a new line for their 787 Dreamliner, creating 1,000 new jobs in South Carolina, giving our state a shot in the arm when we truly needed it.

As I said, my parents loved that when they came to America, if you worked hard, the only things that could stop you were the limits you placed on yourself.

Ann Romney makes all women proud by the way she has conducted her life as a strong woman of faith, as a mother, as a wife and as a true patriot.

American businesses deserve a federal government that doesn't stand in their way, not one that tries to chase them overseas.

Almost forty-five years after my parents first became Americans, I stand before you and them tonight as the proud governor of the state of South Carolina.

All of my policy is not based on a label. It's based on what I lived and what I know.

Everyone can have a bad day.

We take a lot of care with lyrics because we don't want to offend anybody.

We steer completely clear of anything suggestive.

The road can be hard on a kid if he's not careful.

The music is the main thing and it's just as easy to write acceptable words.

She was so small she could make mamba in a telephone booth.

See you later, alligator. After a while, crocodile.

I sat down one night and wrote the line rock, rock, rock everybody.

Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people.

When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.

Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help.

My fondest hope is that 'Roots' may start black, white, brown, red, yellow people digging back for their own roots. Man, that would make me feel 90 feet tall.

I look at my books the way parents look at their children. The fact that one becomes more successful than the others doesn't make me love the less successful one any less.

Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.

Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.

In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it.

Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.

In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.