American Quotes

My overall worldview has never changed: that America has and must maintain the strongest military in the world, that we must lead the international community to confront threats and challenges together, and that we must use all tools of American power to protect our citizens and our interests.

It is easy to get into war, not so easy to get out.

Institutions are imperfect. Governments surely are. People are.

Imposing democracy through force is a roll of the dice.

I'm not saying my idea is the one and only idea. We should have other ideas, but the president has not laid down a specific plan as to how he's going to get us to solvency. I do that.

I'm a supporter of Israel, always have been.

I would not trade America's position in the world - our ledger, our debts and assets - for any country in the world. There isn't a country in the world even close to America.

I have said many times that Iran is a state sponsor of terrorism.

I have never believed you go to war in Iraq, you go to war in Afghanistan, and believe that you can deal with those battlefields, those countries, in microcosms, or narrow channels.

I am fully supportive of 'open service' and committed to LGBT military families.

Foreign policy will require a strategic agility that, whenever possible, gets ahead of problems, strengthens U.S. security and alliances, and promotes American interests and credibility.

Foreign policy is all about a universe of bad decisions, imperfect decisions; every situation is different. The dynamics, the atmospherics, the people, the pressures, the geopolitical realities shift.

Engagement is not appeasement. Engagement is not surrender.

Bogging down large armies in historically complex, dangerous areas ends in disaster.

Alliances and international organizations should be understood as opportunities for leadership and a means to expand our influence, not as constraints on our power.

It's a good thing I don't read everything Eddie says, or I'd be up in arms and not enjoying my life.

If I would have ever dreamed that I wouldn't be in Van Halen anymore and was going to have resume my solo career again, I would have never contributed anything towards my own greatest hits package.

If I would go up on a high note, Eddie would want a low one. That's how petty the situation had become.

I've never met or spoken to David Lee Roth, yet it's rather ironic that even he's saying Eddie's lying about things. I'm saying he's not telling the truth, yet Eddie insists that the two of us are lying! You be the judge.

I've never done a box set, and Eddie's full of it if he says otherwise.

I'm still raising kids myself, so I don't feel like a grandpa.

I'm John Lee Hooker in the sense that he was a blues man and he played blues his whole life. I'm a rock guy and I'm going to play rock music my whole life.

I would like to enlighten people.

I wasn't writing the music. Ed would write a piece of music. I'd listen to it and come up with a melody and then we would arrange it. We'd put it together and I would write lyrics to my melodies.

I looked at Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and the boys up there thinking, I want to be that.

I had a solo career before Van Halen. My fan base filtered through Van Halen with me and came right on out the other side with me.

I don't want to talk about negative, dark things. The only thing I've got against stuff like Marilyn Manson is, they make unbelievable videos and unbelievable images.

I didn't think I'd be around 30 years later.

Everything that Eddie has said about me is the total opposite of what really happened. Eddie says I wanted to be a solo artist. No, Eddie wanted to be a solo artist.

Sometimes you're afraid to fall in love with a chick, but she sucks you in anyway.