Bankruptcy is a serious decision that people have to make.

We cannot and will not ban the creation of violent video games. But, we can prevent the distribution of these disturbing games to children, where their effects can be negative

I will vote my hopes and not my fears

As all of us with any involvement in sports knows, no two umpires or no two referees have the same strike zone or call the same kind of a basketball game

Before we decide to trust you with this power, we ask you to stand before the public and explain your views. Justice may be blind, but it should not be deaf.

Even as we pour hundreds of billions of dollars into our efforts in the Middle East, there is much that needs to be done to win the war of ideas in the Muslim world and beyond

We need to take steps to strengthen and mend Social Security so that its promise of a secure retirement is just as real for seniors in the future as it is today.

The judicial branch has, in its finest hours, stood firmly on the side of individuals against those who would trample their rights.

A nominee [to Supreme Court] must possess the competence, character and temperament to serve on the bench.

As the guardian of our rights, the Supreme Court makes decisions every year which either protect the individual or leave him at the mercy of more powerful forces in our society.

Judicial excellence requires candor before confirmation. We are being asked to give the nominee enormous power.

I know we didn't accomplish anything, but it felt great to sit there and talk about our place in things.

And to fight this beast of wrong is what I intend to do. To do otherwise is to sidestp this rabid injustice.

If I'm engrossed in a book, I have to rearrange my thoughts before I can mingle with other people, because otherwise they might think I was strange.

Winning is a drive, it's a thing that you feel like when I go to bed at night I go to sleep.

If one extends knowledge to the utmost, one will have wisdom. Having wisdom, one can then make choices.

Wow. I don't know. Maybe I'm wrong.

I went to business school but left after four months because I just didn't want to be a puppet of society, stuck in an office, craving some sunlight.

The most radical act anyone can commit is to be happy.

I can't speak for other people, but for me, it never really worked to think something like, "What Beatle did she like in high school?" or those kinds of elaborate backstories.

The poet marries the language, and out of this marriage the poem is born.