Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Watts

In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.

Alan Rickman

I do feel more myself in America. I can regress there, and they have roller-coaster parks.

Alan Grayson

The Republican health care plan: don't get sick ... The Republicans have a back up plan in case you do get sick ... This is what the Republicans want you to do. If you get sick America, the Republican health care plan is this: Die quickly!

Alan Grayson

If you get sick, America, the Republican health care plan is this: Die quickly.

Alan Greenspan

Skilled shortages in America exist because we are shielding our skilled labor force from world competition. [Visa quotas] have been substituted for the wage pricing mechanism. In the process we have created [a] privileged elite whose incomes are being supported at non-competitively high levels by immigration quotas on skilled professionals. Eliminating such restrictions would reduce at least some of the income inequality.

Alan Ball

I guess in America we're so sold on this ideal of the perfect, well-adjusted family that is able to confront any conflict and, with true love and understanding, work things through. I'm sure they do exist, but I never knew any of them.

Al Sharpton

I cannot imagine where we would have been without BET. Many like me who operate in black America can only get our balanced story told nationally on BET talk shows.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

There is no doubt that America is a superpower of the world and we cannot ignore them.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

America is laughing her way to Hell.

Ed Bradley

I always felt more emotionally attached to Cambodia than I did to Vietnam.

Charles Rangel

Enough is enough. This is how we get started in Vietnam.

Dick Rutan

I flew in combat in Vietnam. I got shot at, I shot back, I got shot down. Compared to this flight, I felt a lot safer in combat.

Francis Ford Coppola

My film is not a movie; it's not about Vietnam. It is Vietnam.

Jay Leno

Kerry is saying that Bush never showed up for his national guard duty ... and now Bush is on the attack. He's accusing John Kerry of ducking time in the national guard by hiding out in the jungles of Vietnam.

John F. Kennedy

Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place.

Quentin Tarantino

There was that last blast of Westerns that came out in the Seventies, those Vietnam/Watergate Westerns where everything was about demystification. And I like that about those movies.

John Kenneth Galbraith

If we were not in Vietnam, all that part of the world would be enjoying the obscurity it so richly deserves.

Noam Chomsky

There's never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it's mostly a fabrication.

Jessie Evans

We started to get a little impatient. And they showed they are a veteran team.

Dick Durbin

It is unacceptable that disabled veterans in Illinois rank at the bottom of the list when it comes to disability pay. We owe our disabled veterans more than speeches, parades and monuments.

Clay Walker

We're a veteran line. We should get it done.

Jan Karon

In World War One, they called it shell shock. Second time around, they called it battle fatigue. After 'Nam, it was post-traumatic stress disorder.

Craig Ferguson

It is Veterans Day, when we honor everyone who served in all of the campaigns. We honor them with dignity and respect, and of course mattress sales and tire discounts.

Arthur Koestler

The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.

Tommy Amaker

We're an older, veteran team. Sometimes, that can work in your favor.

Edward Abbey

There never was a good war or a bad revolution.

Aristotle

Those who cannot bravely face danger are the slaves of their attackers.