Children should not be used as pawns in a political fight.

Benghazi happened a long time ago.

The president assured the chancellor that the United States is not monitoring and will not monitor the communications of the chancellor.

Raising the debt ceiling is not additional spending. It is simply saying, you, the United States of America, can continue to borrow the money you need to pay the bills you have already rung up.

When I go stand up at the podium in front of the White House press corps, I never lie. I never say something that I know is untrue. Credibility is enormously important to a press secretary.

What we see happening with this Republican strategy is a willingness to threaten the very foundation of the world's greatest economic power. That is a very risky proposition.

Find the video that has been so offensive to Muslims to be disgusting and reprehensible.

I'm going to work night and day to make sure that Americans get the tax relief that they need and deserve, and that our economy needs and deserves.

I was extremely excited personally about the Obama-Biden victory.

It is an apple full of worms compared to an apple that's fresh and delicious.

Well, I haven't seen the records. I haven't seen Hilary Rosen; I personally know three Hilary Rosen's, so I don't know that this Hilary Rosen is the one we're talking about.

Each meeting occurs at the precise moment for which it was meant. Usually, when it will have the greatest impact on our lives.

Literature is a virus.

Where there is commerce there is peace.

A friend is an open sky with whom you can open wings of your mind to fly.

I've written poetry since I was in the first grade, and it wasn't until I was a little bit older that I realized poetry could be put to music and become a song.

My granddaughter's birth has made me want to create things she will love.

In my time, you needed to speak a little Italian, and that was it.

If one didn't have love, was it better, then, to be alone?

The happiest life has the greatest number of points of contact with the world, and it has the deepest feeling and sympathy with everything that is.

Occupy yourself, and you will be out of harm's way.