American Quotes

Again and again we are confronted with the reality - some might say the problem - of sharing our space with other living things, be they dogs, trees, fish or penguins.

Vaccines are the tugboats of preventive health.

Science is beginning to catch up with global health problems.

Nobody ever thanks you for saving them from the disease they didn't know they were going to get.

People are beginning to understand there is nothing in the world so remote that it can't impact you as a person. It's not just diseases. Economists are now beginning to say if we are going to have good markets in Africa, we're going to have to have healthy people in Africa.

You have to be able to tolerate what you don't necessarily like so you can be free.

Well, one thing, you got to stand in a courtroom and listen to a judge sentencing you to 25 years in prison before you realize that freedom of expression can no longer be taken for granted.

These days... it's all vanilla sex for me.

There's nothing that will change someone's moral outlook quicker than cash in large sums.

The right-wing of the Republican party isn't so much a political agenda as a plea for help.

Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation.

People aren't interested in others controlling what they can do or read or see in the privacy of their own homes.

In 1973, the Supreme Court ruled that individual communities should set obscenity standards. Whenever a case is tried, it will be based on a community standard for that particular place.

I may be paralyzed from the waist down, but unlike Gray Davis, I'm not paralyzed from the neck up.

I don't think many people anticipated how the Internet was going to revolutionize the way we disseminate information.

Being in a wheelchair for 30 years. I'm not whining about it because I don't dwell on things I can't do anything about, you know. I never really think about until somebody mentions it. I did take a bullet.

Any time there's a scandal, we always try and get involved.

The only question to ask yourself is, how much are you willing to sacrifice to achieve this success?

I used to buy into a former Supreme Court justice's argument that you can't scream fire in a crowded theater. Well, I think you can.

And a democracy can't exist without free speech and the right to assemble. And that's what Americans tend to forget. And they're born into a culture where they take all of their freedoms for granted.

You know, everybody believes in free speech until you start questioning them about it.

Moses freed the Jews. Lincoln freed the slaves. I freed the neurotics.

Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch.

If you're not going to offend somebody you don't need the First Amendment.

You will encounter many distractions and many temptations to put your goal aside: The security of a job, a wife who wants kids, whatever. But if you hang in there, always following your vision, I have no doubt you will succeed.

Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.

The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend would die for you, so when you start trying to count them on one hand, you don't need any fingers.

When somebody says that all statements are false, the obvious problem is that as an assertion it's self-defeating.

When I came to New York, I began to meet the people who became the most famous artists of our time. I was insecure about my own level of ability, I didn't know whether I could compete with these people and, at the same time. I was wondering what is this anyway?

When I began competing with the other artists in New York, I discovered classical North Indian music.