Debt is not caused by spending, it is caused by buying things that you don't pay for. Or, it's caused by cutting revenues that you don't offset ... by cuts in spending.

I think the American public has gone from really almost white-hot anger in 2010 to an anxiety knowing their government needs to work.

Barack Obama and Joe Biden have been working hard to help middle-class families make it in America.

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

I really detest movies like 'Indecent Proposal' and 'Pretty Woman' because they send a message to women that sleeping with a rich man is the ultimate goal and really that's such a small part of it.

As the only woman, I was able to sit with the officers in front, with a glass of vodka in one hand and a cucumber in the other. That's how I went to my first war.

The conduct of war was so much more interesting than its prevention.

Days of absence, sad and dreary, Clothed in sorrow's dark array, - Days of absence, I am weary; She I love is far away.

I want to be healed and whole and perfect again, like a misshapen slab of iron that comes out of the fire glowing, glittering, razor-sharp.

Whenever I'm being invited to the New York City Marathon like today, I need to think twice because I know it's a very tough race.

Just as the good life is something beyond the pleasant life, the meaningful life is beyond the good life.

The accolades, just like the scrapes and bruises, fade in the end, and all you're left with is your ambition.

Each stone, each bend cries welcome to him. He identifies with the mountains and the streams, he sees something of his own soul in the plants and the animals and the birds of the field.