Big food companies have their priorities, which include selling cheap, unhealthy foods at high profits.

I'm more of the sneaker-wearing, computer geek type.

We are a diverse country, but we are one country. And we are at our best when we come together as Americans, not despite our differences, but in celebration of them.

I'm too busy thinking what I'm going to say next to remember what I've said, but my staff tells me I'm sometimes funny. Not always on purpose, though.

The foundation of a strong economy and job creation begins with providing every child in America with the best possible education, including students with disabilities.

Congress seems to thrive on breaking promises and passing unfunded mandates down to local government. It's really just a matter of priorities.

Agribusinesses should never dictate the quality of school meals.

But parents and schools have their priorities; making sure our kids eat right because research shows a clear connection between nutrition and student performance in school.

As long as you have money to live then it's not a terribly important thing. If you don't have enough to live, then it's very important thing.

Many rogue sites exist to make a profit and others are enormously expensive to maintain. If they don't have the resources to continue stealing intellectual property, they'll wither away.

When the money dries up, the sites die off. That's the way to go after piracy.

I am glad my case is not serious! But these nervous troubles are dreadfully depressing. John does not know how much I really suffer. He knows there is no reason to suffer, and that satisfies him.

Ravings, in short, jealousy of the past, the worst kind of all.

Christianity is part of the Common Law of England.

It takes about two and a half percent growth just to keep unemployment stable.

For in Jesus Christ there is neither male nor female, bond nor free; even you may be the children of God, if you believe in Jesus.

Poetical appreciation is only newly bursting on me.

It is just as impossible to help reform by conciliating prejudice as it is by buying votes. Prejudice is the enemy. Whoever is not for you is against you.

I was interested in opera and it seemed to me that the only possible theatre for contemporary opera would be television. So I started working towards a kind of television kind of opera.

I have made a lot of career mistakes, a lot and I have made a lot of personal ones too!

Do you ever rub your eyes and suddenly find you're awake and not asleep, as you'd grown to suspect you were?