Quotes by American Authors

"We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded."

Barack Obama, American President

Government, Force, Military, Nationalsecurity, Objectives

1

"Yes, there is some thought about making a film of My Name Is Asher Lev."

Chaim Potok, American Author

Thought, Film, Name

1

"We need to go everywhere. There is not one county in this state, I don't care how far west you go, that doesn't have Democrats. We have to be proud of who we are."

Howard Dean, American Politician

Care, Democrats, State

1

"Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants."

Walter Winchell, American Journalist

Will,

1

"None of them want to delay. Understand that. None of them."

Jack Kevorkian, American Activist

Society, Delay, Want

1

"I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime."

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, American Psychologist

Thought, Choices, Consequences, Deed

1

"I support population control. I think USA should do the same."

Alex Chiu, American Businessman

Control, Population, Support

1

"Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

Inspirational, Love

1

"All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership."

John Kenneth Galbraith, American Economist

Leadership, Time, People, Anxiety

1

"The first priority of any serious program against poverty is to strengthen the male role in poor families."

George Gilder, American Writer

Individuality, First, Poor, Poverty

1

"The Western world, the free world, loses what it cherishes most, and that is freedom and liberty we've seen for a couple of hundred years in this grand experiment that we call democracy."

Tommy Franks, American Soldier

Democracy, Freedom, Liberty, World

1

"Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth."

Erma Bombeck, American Journalist

Car,

1

"And, in the case of schools, or anything else, if you have something that is forcing you to do better than you did the day before, it makes you look forward and it makes you think in a way that's going to make the product better, which is the students and the education."

Craig Benson, American Politician

Education, Day, Schools, Students

1

"We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest."

Thomas Jefferson, American President

Leadership, Conquest, Glory

1

"I teach one semester a year, and this year I'm just teaching one course during that semester, a writing workshop for older students in their late 20s and early 30s, people in our graduate program who are already working on a manuscript and trying to bring it to completion."

Tobias Wolff, American Writer

People, Completion, Students, Teaching

1

"My strength is coming up with two outs in the last of the ninth."

Michael Eisner, American Businessman

Strength,

1

"Remember that whatever may be said by a lady or her friends, it is not part of conduct of a gallant or generous man to take up arms against a woman."

Sam Houston, American Politician

Friendship, Friends, Lady, Man, May

1

"In our open society, we are inclined to give to the less fortunate for the pure goodness of giving. We open our home to those who are alone on this holiday to spread some warmth into the life of another."

Jeff Miller, American Politician

Home, Life, Society, Giving

1

"The most desirable aspects of the Law of the Sea Treaty pertain to navigational rights."

Frank Gaffney, American Writer

Rights, Law, Sea

1

"The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence."

Don DeLillo, American Novelist

Society, Influence, Writer

1

"America is a country that seems forever to be toddler or teenager, at those two stages of human development characterized by conflict between autonomy and security."

Anna Quindlen, American Journalist

Development, America, Conflict, Country

1

"The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware."

Henry Miller, American Author

Life,

1

"Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't."

Barbara Sher, American Businessman

Imagination, Obstacles

1

"We started focusing on this in earnest late summer and early fall. I can build more power plants. In the 12 years before us, not a single plant of major consequence was built."

Gray Davis, American Politician

Power, Plants, Summer, Years

1

"I'm a simple man. All I want is enough sleep for two normal men, enough whiskey for three, and enough women for four."

Joel Rosenberg, American Author

Woman, Women, Man, Sleep, Want

1

"In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature."

Wallace Stevens, American Poet

Imagination, Nature, Words, World

1

"In inquiring concerning the benefits of the plan proposed, I shall proceed upon the supposition that female seminaries will be patronized throughout our country."

Emma Willard, American Activist

Benefits, Country, Will

1

"Be able to hiccup silently, or at least without alerting neighbors to your situation. The first hiccup is an exception."

Marilyn vos Savant, American Writer

Behavior, First, Neighbors

1

"Anybody who thinks talk is cheap should get some legal advice."

Franklin P. Jones, American Journalist

Legal, Advice, Talk

1

"Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money."

Peter Drucker, American Businessman

Money, Business, People

1

"The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little."

Max Lerner, American Journalist

Change, Sadness

1

"It's whatever sells; it's the business of it."

Don Bluth, American Artist

Business,

1

"As much as I transferred my mother to Elizabeth Shore of The Black Dahlia, as much as her dad mutated into an obsession with crime in general, well, I have thought about other things throughout the years."

James Ellroy, American Writer

Family, Dad, Mother, Thought, Crime

1

"I look at every business and ask, How long can this last? How can I identify the status quo and change it?"

Sheldon Adelson, American Businessman

Business, Change

1

"Sometimes I really want to paint somebody and I don't get a photograph that I want to work from."

Chuck Close, American Artist

Work, Want

1

"America's largest trade deficit is with China, a nation that enjoys Permanent Normal Trade Relations with the U.S. and ties its currency to the dollar to make it a more competitive trading partner."

Jo Ann Emerson, American Politician

Trade, America, Nation

1

"Giving the same value to fiction as to fact in the interest of so-called fairness is to mislead the American people and the press has become party to that."

Joe Wilson, American Politician

People, Fact, Fiction

1

"As one who has often felt this need, and who has found refreshment in wild places, I attest to the recreational value of wilderness."

George Aiken, American Politician

Value, Wilderness

1

"I got married, other people went off. We had sort of another public-we were our entire readership for many years, and we were very excited by each other."

Kenneth Koch, American Poet

People, Public, Years

1

"Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem. Suicide is a choice and I think if we work with that with kids, we'll get somewhere."

Peter Lynch, American Businessman

Work, Choice, Kids, Solution

1

"Most people are good at too many things. And when you say someone is focused, more often than not what you actually mean is they're very narrow."

Chuck Close, American Artist

People,

1

"When I started in this business, everybody said the Democrats were the better communicators because they sounded like social workers, and Republicans were awful because they sounded like morticians. In some cases. they actually dressed like morticians."

Frank Luntz, American Politician

Business, Democrats, Republicans, Workers

1

"You call to a dog and a dog will break its neck to get to you. Dogs just want to please. Call to a cat and its attitude is, 'What's in it for me?'"

Lewis Grizzard, American Writer

Attitude, Dogs, Want, Will

1

"The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written."

Franklin D. Roosevelt, American President

Government, Constitution, Rules, States

1

"I don't believe in using too much graphic violence, although I've done it. It's better to be suggestive and to allow the viewer to fill in the blanks in their minds."

Tobe Hooper, American Director

Moderation, Violence

1

"Just because you liked something as a youngster doesn't mean you have to like it as an adult. You can change your taste a little bit on the sweets and things like that."

Mike Ditka, American Coach

Change, Taste

1

"In most of the European countries - France stands out in its resistance to this particular form of American cultural imperialism - the national film industries were forced onto the defensive after the war by such binding agreements."

Fredric Jameson, American Critic

War, Countries, Film

1

"A young man is so strong, so mad, so certain, and so lost. He has everything and he is able to use nothing."

Thomas Wolfe, American Novelist

Man, Nothing

1

"First off, I'm not a scientist, and I make no apology for that."

Christopher Shays, American Politician

Politics, Apology, First

1

"The '60s aren't over; they won't be over until the Fat Lady gets high."

Ken Kesey, American Author

Society, Lady