American Quotes

As proud as we are of this city and as extraordinary as it is, all of south Louisiana and all of the Gulf Coast is a very special place, and the federal government has underinvested in it year after year after year, whether it's education or health care.

For the last 50 years, the federal government has taken out of the Gulf Coast $165 billion in taxes that came from oil and gas off of our coast that went to the federal Treasury, to rebuild all places in America except the place that it came from.

A budget should reflect the values and priorities of our nation and its people.

A penny saved is not a penny earned if at the end of the day you still owe a quarter.

With a houseful of kids you give each other strength.

Now I won't have to worry about the new series making it or not.

Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but I think viewers are hungry for shows in which people say something meaningful.

Life has been good to me. It's not like I missed an awful lot. I had a pretty good lick here. Every moment gets a little more important.

Less than 1 percent of the patients treated are alive at the end of five years.

I've had a good life. Enough happiness, enough success.

I've got nine kids, nine dogs, three grandkids - and one in the oven. And three parrots!

I'm going to beat this cancer or die trying.

I want people to laugh and cry, not just sit and stare at the TV.

I think all of us create our own miracles.

I love my work. I've had three successful series, and I want to find out if I can make a fourth.

I felt my father's presence with me, helping me to commit to paper the feelings I had. I really heard my father speaking to me from the other dimension.

I don't mind dying if I have to, but I'm damned if I want to pay for the guarantee. I'm sorry.

I believe that there is God in all of us.

Every script I've written and every series I've produced have expressed the things I most deeply believe.

Boy, you gotta be real sick to get this much attention.

The one thing I need to leave behind is good memories.

I've fought hard and now I'm weary to the bone.

I believe in God, family, truth between people, the power of love.

Dreaming is one thing, and working towards the dream is one thing, but working with expectations in mind is very self-defeating.

You can die of the cure before you die of the illness.

I'm not the kind of person who gives up without a fight.

I don't have expectations. Expectations in your life just lead to giant disappointments.

Wherever I have gone in this country, I have found Americans.

I would say practical progressive, which means that the Republican party or any political party has got to recognize the problems of a growing and complex industrial civilization. And I don't think the Republican party is really wide awake to that.

You can take the boy out of the Midwest, but you can't take the Midwest out of the boy.