A good day for Barack Obama is anytime the dominant topic of discussion is anything but the economy.

Every Democrat on Capitol Hill professes to be a fiscal hawk.

In America, small business is a big deal.

Education is a shared commitment between dedicated teachers, motivated students and enthusiastic parents with high expectations.

As freedom-loving people across the globe hope for an end to tyranny, we will never forget the enormous suffering of the Holocaust.

The new discovery of a 3.3 billion barrel oil deposit off Norway's coast cements that nation's claim to being Europe's second largest oil producer.

Just to keep up with population growth, on average our economy needs to be adding about 125,000 jobs per month.

Common sense tells us that we should focus our resources to benefit children, teachers and taxpayers by keeping dollars in the classroom.

Americans are paying for our lack of an energy policy with their jobs and out of their pocketbooks.

Obliging elected Democrats willingly pander to the radical lefties who elevated them to their throne.

In choosing Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney made a fantastic choice and a bold statement to the American people.

I'm not going anywhere.

All we have, it seems to me, is the beauty of art and nature and life, and the love which that beauty inspires.

Some poems are written great, some poems are written swell. But then there are poems that could win a prize in Hell.

The map is not the territory... The only usefulness of a map depends on similarity of structure between the empirical world and the map.

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.

You might not be ready for diplomacy with Beijing if you can't visit the Olympics without insulting our closest ally.

I do expose my body, but only because I think people should have something nice to look at.

Often a purple patch or two is tacked on to a serious work of high promise, to give an effect of colour.

Have great hopes and dare to go all out for them. Have great dreams and dare to live them. Have tremendous expectations and believe in them.

It is my conviction that the fundamental trouble with the people of the United States is that they have gotten too far away from Almighty God.