Nobody's ever said that pins are a tool of diplomacy.

Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.

We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.

When I was a boy we didn't wake up with Vietnam and have Cyprus for lunch and the Congo for dinner.

I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad: that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength; our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America.

He’s [Gerald Ford] a nice guy but he played too much football with his helmet off.

I'll have those niggers voting Democrat for the next 200 years.

Why does Sea World have a seafood restaurant I'm halfway through my fish burger and I realize Oh man....I could be eating a slow learner.

Emancipation was a proclamation, but not a fact.

We did not choose to be the guardians of the gate, but there is no one else.

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.

The noblest search is the search for excellence

While you're saving your face, you're losing your ass.

A man without a vote is a man without protection.

[T]he vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.

The land flourished because it was fed from so many sources--because it was nourished by so many cultures and traditions and peoples.

We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.

Our crew guys, it's amazing what they have to go through to make a show happen every night.

As far as heroes thorough the years, I'd say definitely Alabama and Randy Owen, Conway Twitty was a big influence of mine, George Strait, Lionel Richie.

'Tailgate Blues' is kind of a lyrical masterpiece of a country song.

I would like to be a heart surgeon or brain surgeon... something with that knowledge and the ability to save a life would be pretty cool. I wasn't that good in science class, though.

That's the beauty of country music - you have to get out there and earn it and work hard. And when you're on the road with big name acts, you realize there's no easy way to the 'Promised Land' in this business.

I wouldn't necessarily say she is a country artist. I mean, obviously Taylor Swift started in country, but she morphed into somewhat of a cultural icon, so, who am I to judge what she is?

I hope someone thinks I sing good. I'm always working hard to sing better. I sound the way I sound, but I can always be better. I work hard at singing and being a better recording artist.