There are a few Chinese smuggled in over the borders of British Columbia on the north and Mexico on the south.

We are men, and propose to live like men in this free land, without the contamination of slave labor, or die like men, if need be, in asserting the rights of our race, our country, and our families.

California must be all American or all Chinese. We are resolved that it shall be American, and are prepared to make it so. May we not rely upon your sympathy and assistance?

We know that if gold, if fraud, if force can defeat us, they will all be used. And we have resolved that they shall not defeat us. We shall arm. We shall meet fraud and falsehood with defiance, and force with force, if need be.

A few men own from ten thousand to two hundred thousand acres each. The poor Laborer can find no resting place, save on the barren mountain, or in the trackless desert.

We are with you in this work. Workingmen must form a party of their own, take charge of the government, dispose gilded fraud, and put honest toil in power.

Will he get a place for his oldest boy? He can not. His girl? Why, the Chinaman is in her place too!

Our moneyed men have ruled us for the past thirty years. Under the flag of the slaveholder they hoped to destroy our liberty.

As you suggested I have in the following disputed certain passages, trusting you will do me the justice either to modify the same or add a note in the new edition stating that I dispute,' etc.

To add to our misery and despair, a bloated aristocracy has sent to China - the greatest and oldest despotism in the world - for a cheap working slave.

They have stolen the public lands. They have grasped all to themselves, and by their unprincipled greed brought a crisis of unparalleled distress on forty millions of people, who have natural resources to feed, clothe and shelter the whole human race.

They have seized upon the government by bribery and corruption. They have made speculation and public robbery a science. They have loaded the nation, the state, the county, and the city with debt.

There are a few Chinese smuggled in over the borders of British Columbia on the north and Mexico on the south.

They are imported by companies, controlled as serfs, worked like slaves, and at last go back to China with all their earnings. They are in every place, they seem to have no sex. Boys work, girls work; it is all alike to them.

I lack confidence, but I've been so lucky the way jobs have come to me, and I'm so grateful for them. I know how many brilliant actors there are out there who aren't getting the chances. While the work is there, I will grab it with both hands. It could all end tomorrow. You never know what's around the corner.

Most ideas don't work out. Almost all ideas don't work out. So it's okay if yours didn't work out.

Nobody ever thanks you for saving them from the disease they didn't know they were going to get.

The fact is the American people want men and women to stand up and represent them and to put their interests ahead of the party interests.

For me, you've got to play football first. We're not trying to be accountants. The money takes care of itself. That's kind of how I think anyway.

About the Saint's amorous adventures, by the way, I can't speak so brazenly.

If you're going to be a bum, be the biggest. If you're going to blow it, blow it big.

I am hip-hop!

I was a professional dancer before I was an actor.

I had my nose done when I was 16 years old, and I'll be honest: it did change my life.

When I testify, I'll testify. I don't need to sit around chewing my fingernails.

Does art have to have high foot traffic to get funded in a recession? A lot of people, I am sure, would say absolutely not. And those postmodern art-loving loners surely would argue that even if one person likes a piece of art, that would make a museum worthwhile.

When a person is humiliated, when his rights are being violated, and he does not have the proper education, naturally he gravitates toward terrorism.

We human beings are humane in part because we can look beyond our biology.

Having women in office is vital to the health of our democracy because women play a unique role in our society. By and large, women are still the primary caregivers in families, even as we have taken our place in the workforce.

When health is absent wisdom cannot reveal itself art cannot manifest strength cannot fight wealth becomes useless and intelligence cannot be applied.

It was a weird reaction to 'Batman Returns,' because half the people thought it was lighter than the first one, and half the people thought it was darker. I think the studio just thought it was too weird - they wanted to go with something more child- or family-friendly. In other words, they didn't want me to do another one.

No one would argue against the fact that L.A. leads the country in opportunities for being hip and pretentious.

I don't think you can write according to a set of rules and laws; every writer is so different.

Every body continues in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, except insofar as it doesn't.

Poetry is one of the most fugitive arts it can be assigned to memory taken and hidden in the mind smuggled into smoky cabin back rooms recited there and then conveyed only by speech to another person. It is therefore the most likely to survive colonization.

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Nobody should pin their hopes on a miracle.

Ziggy Marley is the third generation of Marleys I know. I knew his grandmother and his dad - I did a children's album with his grandmother. They're like family.