I say to my colleagues never confine your best work your hopes your dreams the aspiration of the American people to what will be signed by George W. Bush because that is too limiting a factor.

Instead of plotting the demise of the traditional family as some politicians and religious leaders would have you believe gay people mow their lawns and watch 'American Idol' and video their children's concerts and have the same hopes and dreams that their straight counterparts do.

Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans.

Mitt Romney will stop the attacks on job creators encourage entrepreneurs to chase their dreams and bring good jobs and a better future to all Americans.

This is the city of dreamers and time and again it's the place where the greatest dream of all the American dream has been tested and has triumphed.

Look at the average American diet: ice cream butter cheese whole milk all this fat. People don't realize how much of this stuff you get by the end of the day. High blood pressure is from all this high-fat eating.

I grew up with a heavy diet of gospel folk and blues because those are kind of the cornerstones of traditional American music.

As American as an apple is and as American as baseball is they don't go together. You can't be chewing an apple at a baseball game. You've got to let go of the diet that day.

Right now I'd love to be sitting on a Greek island somewhere because of being Greek American eating great octopus salad and some fantastic lamb. Or sipping a little ouzo. I think the Mediterranean diet is one of the healthiest... Lots of nuts vegetables fruits fresh fish lean meats yogurt.