I stand before you today because this vision of government as the engine of opportunity is what I believe in.

Never write when you can talk. Never talk when you can nod. And never put anything in an e-mail.

I don't care about motivation. I care about credibility.

Global warming threatens our health, our economy, our natural resources, and our children's future. It is clear we must act.

Yes, people pull the trigger - but guns are the instrument of death. Gun control is necessary, and delay means more death and horror.

Delay is the enemy of progress.

Shareholders have the right and obligation to set the parameters of corporate behavior within which management pursues profit.

I believe in an evolving Constitution. A flexible Constitution leaves room for us to consider not merely how the world once was, but how it ought to be.

Sometimes in politics, you think you've seen it all. Turns out I was wrong.

President Obama is doing the right thing by offering young immigrants, most often in this country through no action of their own, a chance to live and work openly, free from the fear of deportation.

One of the biggest lies in capitalism is that companies like competition. They don't. Nobody likes competition.

I don’t need words, I just need you to come back.” - Taryn

When the Lord makes it clear you're to follow Him in this new direction, focus fully on Him and refuse to be distracted by comparisons with others.

Poetry's unnat'ral; no man ever talked poetry 'cept a beadle on boxin' day.

It was Jacques Chirac and Schroeder both, who pushed us into a conflict to remove Milosevic.

America should treasure its rare, true original voices and Mark Leyner is one of them. So treasure him already, you bastards!

I don't see myself in terms of artifice. I see myself as a real person who chooses to live my life in an open way - artistically.

The ten thousand things flourish and then each returns to the root from which it came. Returning to the root is stillness. Through stillness each fulfils its destiny.

And truly Philosophy is but sophisticated poetry. Whence do those ancient writers derive all their authority but from the poets?

With more people, there are more voices to tune out.

Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.