Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want - and their kids pay for it.

Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it.

America does not need another political campaign based on denial and avoidance of some of our real problems. It needs a crusade to reform and renew our country, its institutions and political system.

I think that retiring the baby boomers is going to be one of the great challenges in America, that you cannot make fiscal sense out of the future of our children without taking on entitlements.

Peace is neither the absence of war nor the presence of a disarmament agreement. Peace is a change of heart.

All we know about the new economic world is that nations which train engineers will prevail over those which train lawyers. No nation has ever sued its way to greatness.

Politics is a love-hate relationship. I sure know that.

Amnesty is a big billboard, a flashing billboard, to the rest of the world that we don't really mean our immigration law.

You know, 600,000 millionaires get a Social Security check every month. I think there's enough waste and inefficiency.

Politics, like theater, is one of those things where you've got to be wise enough to know when to leave.

To me, the failure of liberalism - the tradition I come from - was not recognizing there has to be justice across the generations.

Need for immortality should be added on top of Maslow's hierarchy of needs.

The priest's lesson: beware the Nightlord, for his pleasure is a mortal's doom. My grandmother's lesson: beware love, especially with the wrong man.

A wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interests than it is theirs to find his weak point.

The problem is that when we speak of plan Bs, we already negate the possibility of moving on with plan A.

I refuse to give energy to the negative. I've got a great fella and two great little girls.

I was drawn to acting because it was the one place that I found an emotional outlet.

I did what all good Iriah dads do when faced with a worthy adversary..I said Ask your mother!!

My fellow journalists called themselves correspondents; I preferred the title of reporter. I wrote what I saw. I took no action -- even an opinion is a kind of action.

At Facebook, we build tools to help people connect with the people they want and share what they want, and by doing this we are extending people's capacity to build and maintain relationships.

Look for all the world like you're counting the brain cells in his cranium.