I think the American public has gone from really almost white-hot anger in 2010 to an anxiety knowing their government needs to work.

Debt is not caused by spending, it is caused by buying things that you don't pay for. Or, it's caused by cutting revenues that you don't offset ... by cuts in spending.

Barack Obama and Joe Biden have been working hard to help middle-class families make it in America.

One of these days I'm going to put my body where my mind is.

I couldn't make it out - why you ever let me, I mean. I understand now. Things like that happen when you're in love with the wrong person. Worse things. Things you never forgive yourself for.

Find a place forgotten and make it feel that it is remembered! Find someone forgotten and make him feel that he is remembered!

To the union of all honest men.

How much vanity must be concealed – not too effectively at that – in order to pretend that one is the personal object of a divine plan?

Historically, in my generation, all of my heroes and heroines have had issues and problems. We all do.

I guess the subject of race is so natural to me I never think of it as hefty. It's something I talk about and joke about and discuss with my loved ones every day of my life.

If you are approaching the music with more reverence than the original guys invested into it, you are effectively doing it a disservice.

To reach the goals of your life, you need discipline, you need luck and you need something as important as these two: Vacations!

With President Obama, we will move America forward.