'Treme' begins after Hurricane Katrina, and it's a year-by-year account of how everyday people there put their lives back together. It's sort of a testament to, or an argument for why, a great American city like New Orleans needs to be saved and preserved.

George Pelecanos

If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the troubles will come to an end, and the question which now distracts the country will be settled just as surely as all other difficulties of like character which have originated in this government have been adjusted.

Abraham Lincoln

Whatever else anyone says he was, he may have been. But Tupac really was a great American artist. The passage of time allows us to see things as they really are: We see the poetry; we see the personality; we see different sides.

Afeni Shakur

The Disney tradition - number one, it's a great American classic tradition - and it's something where you don't want to go over certain lines. You want to poke fun, but you don't want to poke fun in a way that's hurtful.

Alan Menken

All that time that we spend tweeting our thoughts and emotions to our next of kin, we could be writing the great American novel, starting a business, or just living.

Alexandra Petri

My initial training was on the keyboard - mainly the great American songbook. In junior high, during the day, I was a classical clarinetist, but after school, I played New Orleans jazz and big-band music.

Anat Cohen

My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.

Barry Manilow

The great American food writer M. F. K. Fisher once wrote an essay called 'The Anatomy of a Recipe.' To have a good anatomy, in her view, a recipe should have a sense of logical progression. She despaired of recipes with 'anatomical faults,' where the reader is told to make a cake batter and only then to grease the loaf pans.

Bee Wilson

In this nation, the greatest of all nations, there are no second-class families. That is our great American conviction.

Benjamin Todd Jealous

Trust in the great American ingenuity. We can derive more intelligent, more brain-friendly ways we can play football.

Bennet Omalu

As an investor, I'm always looking for the next great American company. Who will create tomorrow's Twitter, Facebook, or Google?

Brad Feld

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

Bruce Babbitt

As a former NFL player, I am one American who will have nothing to do with any NFL Team that cannot find the corporate courage to stand for the millions of courageous past great Americans whose sacrifice gave meaning to our flag and national anthem and to the millions upon millions who still dream to come to its free shores.

Burgess Owens

I've got a collection of songs that I've had, I keep adding to and they're all great American composers. I wanted to showcase American composers and I've done that on a lot of my records and played things by American composers that I really respect.

Charlie Haden

I didn't have the great American novel burning inside me, but I felt I could try my hand at popular fiction.

Clive Cussler

I'm not working on the Great American Novel. All I am doing, I hope, is entertaining readers.

Clive Cussler

Jake Johnson wanted to make clear that he was the great American actor, not just the funny guy on 'New Girl.'

Colin Trevorrow

The richness of America is that we are diverse. We're not Sweden. We're not Norway. We are a great American experiment. And as soon as we start trying to forget race or turn our back on race, number one, we don't confront the real racial realities that still persist.

Cory Booker

If you destroyed the underpinnings of this great American sport, you are a hated, ugly, detestable person.

Curt Flood

I think Joe Jackson is a great American figure. In my opinion, he became a scapegoat.

D. B. Sweeney

Great American sport. Horseshoes is a very great game. I love it.

Dan Quayle