American Quotes

Any man who takes a job with the idea that it is simply a springboard for something else is a chump. His attention will be more on the other things than on the job at hand and so he will fail.

A new constitution should be more amendable. A needlessly confusing system of courts should be altered to produce an arrangement that would be simple, responsible, and less awkward.

I want to say here and now, that I demand unshakable integrity of every State employee.

Bosses are no more inevitable in state and local governments than dictators are in national governments. They will arise and prosper, nevertheless, if true believers of democracy - citizens devoted to the democratic ideals - do not constantly oppose them.

Economics, politics, and personalities are often inseparable.

George W. Bush is a leader, and that's what we need in the White House. George Bush is someone you can believe and trust.

Out of all the actors I have worked with, I love working with Larry Hagman the most. We were very close and it was just a wonderful time.

I didn't know I was compared to Elizabeth Montgomery, but I think that I'm in very good company with her.

Family and moral values are so central to everything that I am.

A nation that does not stand for its children does not stand for anything and will not stand tall in the future.

You didn't have a choice about the parents you inherited, but you do have a choice about the kind of parent you will be.

No person has the right to rain on your dreams.

If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.

I'm sure I am impatient sometimes. I sure do get angry sometimes. I think it's outrageous how hard it is to get this country to feed its children and to take care of its children, to give them a decent education.

Education is a precondition to survival in America today.

Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.

We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.

Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.

Children under five are the poorest age group in America, and one in four infants, toddlers and preschoolers are poor during the years of greatest brain development.

To all those mothers and fathers who are struggling with teen-agers, I say, just be patient: even though it looks like you can't do anything right for a number of years, parents become popular again when kids reach 20.

The Declaration of Independence was always our vision of who we wanted to be, our ideal of freedom and justice, how we were going to be different, and what the American experiment was going to be about.

Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts.

Semi-automatic weapons have no socially redeeming purpose.

If we don't stand up for children, then we don't stand for much.

We do not have a money problem in America. We have a values and priorities problem.

A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back - but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you.

Learn to be quiet enough to hear the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in others.

If we think we have ours and don't owe any time or money or effort to help those left behind, then we are a part of the problem rather than the solution to the fraying social fabric that threatens all Americans.

Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.

Don't feel entitled to anything you didn't sweat and struggle for.