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

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.

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

Europe is trying to get its fiscal house in order.

Most Americans want health insurance.

As if a cookbook had anything to do with writing.

I supported the Iraq resolution, but that was not an approval of war in Iraq and certainly was not approval for an occupation of Iraq.

I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and members of the Senate.

There are many, many different worlds. Just as there are different continents on earth, there are different dimensional planes.

Editing is the only process. The shooting is the pleasant work. The editing makes the movie, so I spend all my life in editing

I knew no one who'd ever been in the public eye.

God, the object of our worship, also becomes the inspiration of that worship. He has imparted His own Spirit into our hearts to energize that worship. All that is due Him comes from Him.

Wind indeed increases fire, but custom love.

The work of art of the future will be the construction of a passionate life.

I have more free time than a lot of individuals, so, instead of talking, I sometimes write.