Having five children in six years is the best training in the world for Speaker of the House.

Unemployment benefits are creating jobs faster than practically any other program

Every month that we do not have an economic recovery package 500 million Americans lose their jobs.

Hamas is a humanitarian organization.

But we have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy.

If I had my way, sporting guns would be strictly regulated, the rest would be confiscated

I believe in natural gas as a clean, cheap alternative to fossil fuels.

Pass the bill to find out what's in it

As many of you know, I came from San Francisco. We don't have a lot of farms there. Well, we do have one - it's a mushroom farm, so you know what that means.

Civilization as we know it today would be in jeopardy if the Republicans win the Senate.

I don’t remember saying that everybody in the country would have a lower premium.

Let everyone evolve fast and understand humanity. Let the heart of stones be converted into heart of love.

She didn't deserve me. She deserved a hell of a lot better than me, but so help me, I wasn't good enough of a man to just let her go.

The first rule of Evernight is that any vampire who seeks sanctuary must be given a place." -Charity

The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, and the fourth for madness.

I don't divide the world into the weak and the strong, or the successes and failures...I divide the world into the learners and non-learners.

The last western society to worship female powers was Minoan Crete. And significantly, that fell and did not rise again.

I don't think I'm very ambitious at all. But I seem to play people who have that quality.

When you don't work together you can't emerge as a force. It becomes what some call a "lonely struggle" and individual self-destruction.

The man who lives for himself is a failure; the man who lives for others has achieved true success.

When you are on the podium nobody is asking you if you are 15 or 30 years old. What matters is who can do great gymnastics.