American Quotes

Our goal is to make Maine the healthiest state in the nation and reduce our overall health care costs.

Just as the Red Sox proved the critics wrong, Maine can compete and can win.

I think Maine needs people. It needs diversity. It needs to be able to respect people. Openness is crucial for this state because we don't want to be known for having the oldest state in the nation. We want young families.

Energy consumption matters both to our environment and our economy.

Excellent education and an excellent environment are two hallmarks of our state. How we treat our environment is connected to so many other opportunities in Maine.

All I know is that history repeats itself and people are going to want to experience the world. But I know then they are going to have a better appreciation for what is here in Maine.

The military is a very cool world to write about. I went down to Ft. Benning, Ga., for military training, and I learned a lot about soldiers and officers and why they joined up and what their life has been like.

Some people take 10 years to write a book and some can do one in under a year.

People who have expertise just love to share it. That's human nature.

People have given me classified information, but always with the disclaimer 'This can never end up in a book.' And it never does.

Most people associate reading with laying on the beach. They don't see that it's crucial for a democracy!

In every thriller written about Washington, particularly after 9/11, there are good guys and there are bad guys, and there's no gray area at all.

I'm tired of people screaming about price and forgetting about the content.

I'm ever curious about the world. I'm driven to go out and find new things to write about. Having a vivid imagination is also a plus.

I'm a wicked ping-pong player.

I'd read a lot of thrillers about politicians and presidents, but never one where you flip the stereotypes and make good people bad and bad people good.

I look for material that both interest me and challenges me. If I am drawn to the material and I have to work hard at it, the characters and the plots reflect the hours and hours of research.

Fiction is sort of a way to set the record straight, and let people at least believe that justice can be achieved and the right outcomes can occur.

But protagonists are protagonists and heroes are heroes.

But if I worried too much about publishers' expectations, I'd probably paralyze myself and not be able to write anything.

Why waste time trying to discover the truth, when you can so easily create it?

I'm driven to go out and find new things to write about.

I'm scattered, and then that last hundred pages, bam, I'm a laser.

As a lawyer, as a private citizen, you see a lot of injustice. You see a lot of people who should have been punished and are not, and people who were punished wrongfully are not vindicated. Fiction is sort of a way to set the record straight, and let people at least believe that justice can be achie

Without a common loyalty to either a state or a church they have nevertheless a vast deal in common.

We have lived through the flood time of fascism and of the nazism which ran its meteoric course at a cost to mankind in suffering and waste beyond all computation.

Those who are rooted in the depths that are eternal and unchangeable and who rely on unshakeable principles, face change full of courage, courage based on faith.

These wars appear also to have given its death blow to colonialism and to imperialism in its colonial form, under which weaker peoples were treated as possessions to be economically exploited. At least we hope that such colonialism is on the way out.

There is a great interest in comparative religion and a desire to understand faiths other than our own and even to experiment with exotic cults.

The role of Italy and of Austria has diminished as has that of France and Britain; Germany and Japan have suffered catastrophically.