Europe is trying to get its fiscal house in order.

The most critical thing in a negotiation is to get inside your opponent's head and figure out what he really wants.

Raising the debt limit on some levels is a ministerial act. It doesn't involve any new spending.

If you look at the cost of providing health insurance, it actually doesn't cost more to provide a plan with contraceptive coverage than it does without.

If you have a student who graduates from college and they don't have a job, they are now able to stay on their family health plan.

If you don't define the problem you'll never reach a painful solution.

I think there is a shared sense of urgency in Washington on fiscal issues.

I think that for the next short period of time, our No. 1 priority is Congress needs to do its work and extend the payroll tax cut.

Historically, the responsibility for voting on the debt limit has gone to the party in the majority.

Every president since George Washington has taken executive privilege seriously. Every Republican president has.

Most Americans want health insurance.

Trust me, change can happen in much less time given the right circumstances. Hell, sometimes the people we're closest to change and there's nothing we can do to bring them back.

Each time we choose to step down for others that is a form of death to self.

I come from a very religious background.And actually I remained in it. All my anger I describe in my quarrels with God in Auschwitz, but you know I used to pray every day.

There is a beautiful flow to the study of Zen. If it is not making you happier, then you are not practicing correctly.

What would I do without the absurd and the ephemeral?

It's a good thing we're pretty to look at," I said as Lend sat down on the orange plastic seats next to me. "Because we don't have much else going for us as bowlers.

The vanity of shining in conversation is usually subversive of its own desires.

I think Harold Ramis is a genius beyond genius, and he's the nicest guy, funniest guy, sweetest guy ever. So I don't know if it applies to everybody, but maybe it has to do with your childhood.

Back then, when everybody thought the world would last forever, nobody had time for anything.