Buck Owens Quotes
But most distinctly, I remember always saying to myself that when I get big, I'm not going to go to bed hungry, I'm not going to wear hand-me-down clothes.
Owens, Buck, and Randy Poe. Buck 'Em! The Autobiography of Buck Owens. Backbeat Books, 2013.
The minister had refused to be pressured by the George W. Bush Administration to sign an agreement with the US agreeing never to turn over an American or foreign national working for America to the International Criminal Court (ICC). Even if a Costa Rican or other non-American were working for an American Agency as an informant, agent, or other role, the country could not respect the treaty obligations that they had made with regard to the ICC. Costa Rica was punished losing $400,000 aid. Nations were so punished while the State Department was spending huge sums to remedy negative opinion that so many nations had developed for the US during the George W. Bush administration. See {585493},65901 & {585495}, for more quotations on this. The US did not join the ICC Treaty as in a some countries political considerations and different ethical values have labeled some American legitimate behavior as criminal and have attempted to hold individuals responsible for carrying out lawful orders
Alvis Edgar Owens Jr., known professionally as Buck Owens, was an American musician, singer, songwriter and band leader. He was the front man for Buck Owens and the Buckaroos, which had 21 No. 1 hits on the Billboard country music charts. He pioneered what came to be called the Bakersfield sound, named in honor of Bakersfield, California, Owens' adopted home, and the city from which he drew inspiration for what he preferred to call "American music".
