American Quotes

The first Monopoly game I played with my brothers, I hated losing so much, I just had to beat them.

Nevada's one of the most conservative states in the Union, but you can do what you want in Vegas and nobody judges you.

I see my face in the mirror and go, 'I'm a Halloween costume? That's what they think of me?'

I don't care if my jokes are appropriate for a kid.

As far as your personal goals are and what you actually want to do with your life, it should never have to do with the government. You should never depend on the government for your retirement, your financial security, for anything.

I love the normalcy of Cleveland. There's regular people there.

My fans are pretty normal, they are always really nice and polite, and they don't interrupt my meals.

As far as your personal goals are and what you actually want to do with your life, it should never have to do with the government. You should never depend on the government for your retirement, your financial security, for anything. If you do, you're screwed.

Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so? There's a support group for that. It's called everybody, and they meet at the bar.

Talking to my wife, we stare at each other, saying, 'How is this happening? Why is this happening? Why now?' It's nothing I ever aspired to.

People generally have sex fairly young, and probably younger than they should be having it.

It's not a master plan to do every remake and every recreation of icons. It's just what I've been hired to do.

It was kind of like they were just giving us a toy to play with, to do whatever we wanted with.

In my wildest dreams I never thought - well, I never thought I'd work.

Nothing to me feels as good as laughing incredibly hard.

The risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed.

The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities.

Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.

Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.

Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.

Law never is, but is always about to be.

Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.

I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life.

Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.

We owe our troops more than rhetoric; we owe them a real plan. The Administration has yet to put forward a strategy for achieving stability in Iraq, ending the conflict, and handing over sovereignty to the people of Iraq and the new Iraqi government.

The truth is the Republican leadership has created a credit card Congress that is recklessly selling out the future of America, our children and our grandchildren, and President Bush is the most fiscally irresponsible President in the history of America.

The longer we go without strong leadership from the Administration and until we see significant progress in the day-to-day lives of the Iraqi people, the more difficult it will become to sustain the support of the American people and Congress for the current course.

Our constituents paid into Social Security, and they want it paid back to them when they retire. Cutting Social Security benefits that Americans have earned should always be a last resort.

Now is not the time to give greater protections to pharmaceutical companies that put unsafe drugs like Vioxx on the market. Such protections have nothing to do with the liability insurance crisis facing doctors and should be stripped from this bill.

Like my colleague, I represent a large Assyrian community in central California, one of the largest concentrations of Assyrian Americans anywhere in the United States.