American Quotes

It is about time that we develop a worldwide strategy to reduce illegal trade in meth and its precursor chemicals and stop the devastating impact that methamphetamine use is having on our children and our communities.

In 2003, Congress authorized the construction of a visitor center for the Vietnam Memorial to help provide information and educate the public about the memorial and the Vietnam War.

If the United States were to cut and run from Iraq, we would send a message of weakness that would embolden our terrorist enemies across the globe. A failed Iraq would destabilize the entire region and undermine U.S. national security for decades to come.

I know that my Republican colleagues are as ashamed as I am that the United States is forced to borrow over $1 trillion from foreign nations to pay for our national priorities like reconstruction of the gulf coast and the war in Iraq.

I fully support the goal of species protection and conservation and believe that recovery and ultimately delisting of species should be the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's top priority under ESA.

House Democrats have tried to increase port security funding on this House floor four times over the last 4 years, and House Republicans have defeated our efforts every single time.

As an adoptive parent myself of foster children, I have seen firsthand the glaring problems of the system currently facing this Nation.

In our system of democracy, our government works on a system of checks and balances. Instead of stripping power from the courts, I believe we should follow the process prescribed in our Constitution - consideration of a Constitutional amendment.

Yes, I'm very close to my family. And being that close to your family, I think you also struggle with how to become your own person.

I think I'm going to spend some time learning how to be a first-time mom, and then I'll go back to work.

I think everyone feels lost at times during their high school years.

I just got back from Switzerland, which I've never been to. I went to Switzerland and Amsterdam.

I always thought I was a little shy, especially compared to my brother and my sister, but I guess I was always the kid doing performances in the front room.

After I finished 'E.R.', I wanted to concentrate on re-examining what kind of actress I am and taking time for real-life things.

In all my study of history, I have never found a time or place I would rather have lived than now.

I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.

I say this as a Democrat, for whom the Republican domination of government threatens many values that I hold to be important to America's role as a light among nations. But there are no values that matter to me that will not be gravely endangered if we lose this war.

I realized that everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas.

I listen to music constantly while writing.

I have lived in the only decades I could have lived in, and hope to live through at least a few more.

I fell into playwriting accidentally, took some classes in it, and also took creative writing classes, but I really didn't expect it to be a career because I didn't believe there was a way to make money as a playwright without being lucky and I didn't feel particularly lucky.

I buy way too many books.

I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt.

Everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas.

But in the meantime I became accustomed to the writing life and it would be hard to change now - partly because of the salary cut if I went to my other love, teaching; and partly because I still have stories to tell, even though it isn't all that fun doing the work anymore.

As long as you keep getting born, it's alright to die some times.

Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.

The best thing about my job, though, is stopping at the end of the day and rejoining the human universe.

My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer.

Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.