I favor the extension of the middle-class tax cuts because in a recession they're stimulative and they help with demand.

Historically, the minority party in Congress votes against raising the debt limit, forcing the majority party to whip its members into casting politically painful votes in favor.

In Washington, 'delay' is too often code for 'derail.' Wink, wink.

There's no conscious plan here; my whole life in politics as a state legislator and in Congress has been about strengthening the middle class.

Ah well, I suppose that's the problem with trying to make others follow your own beliefs: what starts out as spiritual ardor too often becomes arrogance and bigotry.

Are you living in the moment?

Never did the world make a queen of a girl who hides in houses and dreams without traveling.

A truly evolved society is one which is measured by how well it treats the least of its members.

Love yourself for who you are, you worth it.

We shall face many troubles. But the Lord shall deliver us from each one of them.

Magnus shrugged. "He also made inappropriate amorous advances to a startled grandmotherly sort selling flowers, an Irish wolfhound, and innocent hat stand in a dwelling he broke into, and myself.

It were no slight attainment could we merely fulfil what the nature of man implies.

The pitcher goes so often to the fountain that if gets broken.

To succeed [,] consider what is as though it were past, deem yourself inevitable and take credit for it. If you no longer believe, enlarge the temple.