American Quotes

I think Ingmar Bergman, Francoise Truffaut - all these people created images in my mind, beautiful pictures, I loved what was known at that time as the foreign film.

I mean, I can sit down with a guitar, and in fact, we do two, three songs with just guitar and percussion.

I always went with my agenda, I just couldn't execute it.

Elvis was, at least the times I was around him, Elvis was a practical joker. He was always, had some little mischievous something going.

And unless you have that sense of being creative, people think you're just working all the time.

And I just remember, you know, breaking into tears and feeling so empty because, as long as Elvis was in the world, you always knew something was going and he always had something that kept everybody mesmerized.

And being away and not performing for a long time and really connecting with my audience for a long time, I have a great responsibility to myself and to them to do it exactly the way the process was when I was young.

I don't need to be asking for money for local museums and other projects just to make me look good back home.

I don't have the support inside Washington or even inside my own party.

I don't have many litmus tests, but this is one: Any candidate who doesn't understand that we need to balance the budget should not be president of the United States.

I don't even like playing a contentious role.

I can tell you if you look at the polls, Democrats, Republicans, Independents, they do not think we should increase the debt limit.

I believed the only thing that could turn around this government spending and mounting debt would be if the people rose up.

From a policy standpoint, the Judeo-Christian principles are important.

First of all, no candidate is going to win by catering to the alleged Occupy Wall Street vote.

Anyone who says the Republicans have been irresponsible aren't looking at the facts.

American businesses and upper incomes pay a larger portion of the federal taxes of our national taxes than any country in the world.

Well, one of the most important things for Americans to be reminded of is that a lot of the exceptional nature of our country is founded in Judeo-Christian values that promotes individualism, personal responsibility, a strong work ethic, and a commitment to family, charity.

We know from our own history that democratic institutions take decades to mature, and we know from past conflicts that freedom is not free.

The debate in the Republican Party needs to be between libertarians and conservatives.

It doesn't make sense to have to do the wrong thing in order to do the right thing.

I'd like to see a Republican Party that embraces a lot of the libertarian ideas.

I went through two pretty dark years being fed up with the system and frustrated with my own party after two disastrous elections in 2006 and 2008.

California is going to take themselves off the cliff culturally and economically, fiscally. They are going to be at the trough in Washington wanting a bailout.

As more people rely on government programs, the harder it becomes to conduct the necessary reforms to preserve them to help our society's most vulnerable.

A free and stable Iraq will be a shining light against the shadow of Islamic extremism.

I just want people to know that if they want to change the direction of the country, they can do it, but only if they're active, informed, and engaged.

Well, we lost a lot of our independence already. We are dependent on China for credit. We are dependent on Middle Eastern countries for energy supplies. And many Americans are dependent on the government for their income, health care, education of their children, food stamps.

If we become too scared to confront the chief problems of our time, there is no hope of ever solving them.

Compromise works well in this world when you have shared goals.