American Quotes

If now isn't a good time for the truth I don't see when we'll get to it.

Hip-hop is a cultural expression - it's embracing.

There're two people in the world that are not likeable: a master and a slave.

Some say we are responsible for those we love. Others know we are responsible for those who love us.

A lot of people refuse to do things because they don't want to go naked, don't want to go without guarantee. But that's what's got to happen. You go naked until you die.

Now, everything I do, I do because I want to. And I believe the best is yet to come.

Everything will change. The only question is growing up or decaying.

If I could come back as anything - I'd be a bird, first, but definitely the command key is my second choice.

I am totally fascinated by people and our history as I understand and continue to explore it. People have so much to give and so far to go and yet we have given and gone a great distance. It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.

We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained.

If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.

Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.

A lot of people resist transition and therefore never allow themselves to enjoy who they are. Embrace the change, no matter what it is; once you do, you can learn about the new world you're in and take advantage of it.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don't mind the failure but I can't imagine that I'd forgive myself if I didn't try.

You would have a huge statelessness problem if you don't consider a child born abroad a U.S. citizen.

Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?

When police or prosecutors conceal significant exculpatory or impeaching material, we hold, it is ordinarily incumbent on the state to set the record straight.

We had to go on and do the work of the court and we did.

So that's the dissenter's hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.

She never envisioned a legal career for me, but she did think it was very important that I be able to support myself, and I think she would be pleased to see what has become of me.

Reproductive choice has to be straightened out. There will never be a woman of means without choice anymore. That just seems to me so obvious. The states that changed their abortion laws before Roe are not going to change back. So we have a policy that only affects poor women, and it can never be ot

My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.

It is not women's liberation, it is women's and men's liberation.

It is not like I have gone crazy, I just don't want to take any chances. You never know what could happen.

I would not like to be the only woman on the court.

I said on the equality side of it, that it is essential to a woman's equality with man that she be the decision-maker, that her choice be controlling.

Frankly, I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don't want to have too many of.

Dissents speak to a future age.

Arizona presents no specific reason for excepting capital defendants from the constitutional protections extended to defendants generally, and none is readily apparent.