Pastoral Resources

I left for New York expecting to repeat my success, only to be turned down by almost every publisher in that city, till the Viking Press, my American publishers of a lifetime, thought of taking me on.

There is no excitement anywhere in the world, short of war, to match the excitement of the American presidential campaign.

With the end of the nominating process, American politics leaves logic behind.

I happen to think that American politics is one of the noblest arts of mankind; and I cannot do anything else but write about it.

Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.

We teach young kids from 8 to 14 or 15 about their musical heritage through great songs written by American songwriters. We don't do too many modern composers, although we include songs from Billy Joel and other writers like him.

I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.

The role we can play every day, if we try, is to take the whole experience of every day and shape it to involve American man. It is our job to interest him in his community and to give his ideas the excitement they should have.

Over the past two years, the House has passed more than 50 measures focused on stimulating the economy and expanding opportunities for American workers. The tax relief provisions in this package have been an important part of our pro-growth agenda.

We do foreign assistance for altruistic reasons, certainly for humanitarian reasons, of course. But the main reason we do foreign assistance is we do it in the American national interest.

And while the U.S. can never be 100 percent safe from a future strike, our government is working around the clock on measures to protect the American people.

More Americans are working today than at any time in history.

Gary Cooper was a good friend. He was a great nature lover. He was like an American Indian, he knew every leaf that was turned over. It was an education to go for a walk with him.

When good Americans die they go to Paris.

The American dream, to me, means having the opportunity to achieve, because I don't think you should be guaranteed anything other than opportunity.

Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses.

Pessimism is as American as apple pie - frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese.

Today more Americans are imprisoned for drug offenses than for property crimes.

Look, three love affairs in history, are Abelard and Eloise, Romeo and Juliet and the American media and this President at the moment. But this doesn't matter over time. Reality will impinge. If his programs work, he's fine. If it doesn't work, all of the adulation of journalists in the world won't matter.

Contrary to popular belief, Americans don't hate advertising.