American Quotes

Bringing democratic control to the conduct of foreign policy requires a struggle merely to force the issue onto the public agenda.

As with almost every significant aspect of the Bush presidency, its handling of 9/11 was a catastrophe from start to finish.

As a parent and a citizen, I'll take a Bill Gates (or Warren Buffett) over Steve Jobs every time. If we must have billionaires, better they should ignore Jobs's example and instead embrace the morality and wisdom of the great industrialist-philanthropist Andrew Carnegie.

Apple is a wonderful company for its customers and investors. So, too, Pixar. (NeXT, not so much...) But Apple is also an engine of misery for its subcontracted Chinese workers.

Americans have always evinced some distrust of government, but the current situation has exacerbated this to a degree that may be unprecedented.

American journalists tend to treat inequality as a fact of life. But it needn't be.

America's great newspapers have staffs that range from 50 percent to 70 percent of what they were just a few years ago.

The ability of the 1 percent to buy politicians and regulators is nothing new in American politics - just as inequality has been a permanent part of our economic system. This is true of virtually all political and economic systems.

Fox News is nothing if not impressive. No matter how harsh the criticism it endures, the network somehow always manages to prove itself even worse than we had previously imagined.

It's not about failure; it's about trying something and risking something for attaining your goal.

It doesn't matter what age you are. You can look sexy and feel great, and that doesn't have to be a gift only for the young. It can be a gift for any age, even the old, whatever that is nowadays.

If you could sit down with Jesus, you wouldn't need anybody else. He could answer all of your questions. Instead of Einstein and Louis Pasteur and Madame Curry, you could just have Jesus and he could answer for all of them.

If you can eat 70 percent raw or introduce raw into your diet, it will help your health.

If I'm making a movie and get hungry, I call time-out and eat some crackers.

I'm not a vegetarian.

I went along doing the one-salad-a-night routine for a year. And I remember feeling so tired and depressed and irritable. I had no personal life. I was always flying someplace - weekends, holidays, vacations. Dinners at night were no fun because I couldn't eat.

I was diagnosed with hypoglycemia, an abnormal decrease of sugar in the blood. Eventually I learned to eat five small meals a day. Now if I'm making a movie and get hungry, I call time out to eat some crackers.

I think with most all of us, we want control of our image - it's part of the work that we do.

I never thought I was the most beautiful model out there or the most sexy woman, but I was a hard worker.

I have a sentimental feeling for my very first cover I was on - it was 'Bazaar' Magazine.

I found my prince - he's a hockey player and we met at an NHL event, the last place I'd ever expect to meet someone, but there he was.

I don't eat celery. I eat raw milk, cheeses.

I didn't think there was life after modelling, believe me. It's a hit to the ego when you are not the diva on the set any more. But I think what keeps me going are challenges. I love when people tell me I can't do something.

I am thrilled to be able to bring my vision of beauty to others who may be inspired by it.

Food should be raw, just the way God intended it!

Everybody's eating all my - brownies, granola, anything you eat cooked, I can find you raw.

Elle MacPherson is absolutely amazing; she is just so beautiful.

Becoming an actress takes a lot longer than being a star. I don't want to be a star. I want to be an actress. I want to build a career.

Because I was the first super-elite, the press caught on and started calling me a supermodel. So in that sense, I guess I'm the first. But, in my opinion, there were girls that could have been called supermodels before that, if the term was in existence.

I'm not a fast driver. I've seen what speed can do.