American Quotes

I used to sing songs from musicals all the time as a kid.

I think I have some anger-management issues, and they end up coming out in these passive-aggressive songs that sound happy.

I never played coffee shops; I just played a lot of coffee shop-sized venues. I took every venue I could get my hands on.

I have been very fortunate to be a part of tours with other artists that have exposed me to new places that I've never been before. Once you discover something beautiful, you just want to keep coming back.

I have been influenced by many different artists at many different stages of my life. Starting out, it was people like Elton John, Billy Joel, Ben Folds, and Fiona Apple. As I got older I got deeper into the work of bands like the Beatles, artists like Sam Cooke, Ray Charles, Etta James, and Joni Mi

I feel like my songs are like diary entries for me. So I usually write about things that have happened to me specifically or sometimes it can be someone who's close to me.

The Nobel awards should be regarded as giving recognition to this general scientific progress as well as to the individuals involved.

The combined results of several people working together is often much more effective than could be that of an individual scientist working alone.

Science is a field which grows continuously with ever expanding frontiers.

My earlier award was also based on a close collaborative effort.

Further, science is a collaborative effort.

When I became governor, spending actually increased 28 percent my first term. Revenue increased 42 percent my first term without raising anybody's taxes. We did it because we had more taxpayers with more taxable income. That's how you get the revenue up. We did that without raising anybody's taxes.

There's no recovery on Main Street, I can tell you that for sure. And in a re - in an economy like this, we don't need to be raising anybody's taxes.

The Obama administration and the Democratic Congress have taken the biggest lurch to the left in policy in American history. There've been no - no Congress, no administration that has run this far to the left in such a small period of time. And there is a reaction to that.

The decision is 'trust fund' versus 'no more Medicaid' - and that shouldn't be a tough decision.

My daddy died when I was two years old. My mother raised my two older brothers and me. And we couldn't have had a better situation. I mean, she was the - ran the concession stand at the Little League, and she was the first woman president of The Touchdown Club, the booster club for the high school f

Most Americans are more concerned about the economy and job creation. And they can't understand why the Obama administration or the Democrat majority in Congress wants to pass a bill like the cap-and-trade tax that will cost us jobs, that will hurt our economy, that will drive up costs for families,

I'm floored that the House leadership would turn its back on job creation for Mississippians.

I'm a lobbyist and had a career lobbying. The guy who gets elected or the lady who gets elected president of the United States will immediately be lobbying. They would be advocating to the Congress, they'll be lobbying our allies and our adversaries overseas. They'll be asking the business community

I think the American people are very smart in understanding our country is very trustworthy with nuclear weapons. We've had them from the beginning. But they have also been critical for keeping the world more at peace than it would have been if it hadn't been for the American nuclear umbrella.

I have a record as governor. I have a record of cutting spending. And I talked yesterday not only about we ought to cut spending, I talked about how we've cut spending in Mississippi and how if you did the same things in the federal government, you would save tens of billions of dollars a year.

Big business has no party and never shall have.

Making cartoons means very hard work at every step of the way, but creating a successful cartoon character is the hardest work of all.

Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought.

In those days, boxing was very glamorous and romantic. You listened to fights on the radio, and a good announcer made it seem like a contest between gladiators.

I was convinced there as only one actor to play Templeton the Rat, and that was Tony Randall.

I was 82 years old before Who's Who thought I was enough of a big shot to do a piece on me.

I never got tired of Tom and Jerry, but I did have a dream of doing more with my life than making cartoons.

I hope we don't get to the point where we have to have the cat stop chasing the mouse to teach him glassblowing and basket weaving.

I have spent a lot of years on the outside looking in.