General Petraeus is not a miracle worker. He can not be successful unless the president creates greater confidence within his own team about the decisions which the president has himself made.

We should not allow wealthy people, including corporate criminals, to hide their assets and avoid paying their bills.

We need a defense budget that's big enough to sustain an increase in the size of the Army.

I just think that the independent voters are going to take their time and look at both candidates.

Replacing General McChrystal with David Petraeus was a good first step, but more will be needed.

People are working harder and harder than ever before and barely staying in place.

This economy is not getting better and the president's policies are the reason.

I would love to be able to serve in office in some capacity with Romney as president.

I've been very active in Missouri.

Governor Romney is a good debater.

I've always believed the two best anti-poverty programs are work and marriage.

There are people who are willing to protect freedom until there is nothing left of it.

The goods of fidelity, for example, are plain and concrete to the man who has not strayed, but they are faint, like mathematical abstractions, to the one who is addicted to other men's wives.

More simply said, the finite does not add to the infinite but merely expresses the power of the infinite in a limited mode.

The Democratic Party will live and continue to receive the support of the majority of Americans just so long as it remains a liberal party.

In meditation the mind stops, thought ceases. When thought stops, the world stops. When the world stops, perception stops. When perception stops, the sense of "I" as a perceiver falls away.

I like to employ the power of no. We all want to say yes, because with yes comes so much opportunity, but with the power of no comes focus and engagement.

Nothing beats being really honest about who you are and what you need. All the rest just works itself out.

I don't think commercialization is the answer to anything. It's just one more facet of Linux, and not the deciding one by any means.

The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.

Mys philosophy toward art is true to my time, true to my dream, and true to myself.