I think the average American recognizes that it took years to create the crisis that erupted in 2008 and peaked in January of 2009. And it's going to take some time to work through it.

I have never believed in the Wizard of Oz theory of consulting, that I am all-knowing and all-seeing, and that everyone around me is kind of a backbencher

Any time you have loose ballots, you have to worry about shenanigans. It's a shame such a hard-fought election has to come down to something like this.

I'm a kibitzer with a broad portfolio.

We don't want to go back to the same policies and practicies that drove our economy into a ditch, that punished the middle class, and that led to this catastrophe. We keep moving forward.

I think that more and more you're going to see people of good will on their side of the aisle say you know what, we got to get off the bus here, this is not headed in the right direction.

I think President Obama is a committed, practicing nonideologue. He's consumed by neither tactics nor ideology. He is more concerned about outcomes than he is about process and categorizations

I think those autoworkers whose industry would have collapsed if the president hadn't intervened are certainly better off.

This marketplace where people can buy insurance who don't have it today, a competitive marketplace - that's an idea that both sides embrace.

I think that the millions and millions of young Americans, young Americans, who have health care today, who wouldn't have had it if the president hadn't acted are better off.

I think the millions of people who had been able to renegotiate their mortgages so they are paying lower interest rates are better off.

I have always believed in the principle that immediate survival is more important than long-term survival.

Leaders step up, even when they feel like hiding. And they do so because they care.

All cat stories start with this statement: "My mother, who was the first cat, told me this...

If you hear a man rail at the Bible, you can usually conclude that he never reads it.

You must ban together with other women of like mind and for the first time find fellowship, womanship, without the need to compete, without having to climb to the top over each other.

Quotes about marriage are surprised filled.

I see the triumph of good over evil as a manifestation of the error-correcting process of evolution.

If you want to be successful, never laugh!

Now I am the unknown, the unknowable.

Who cares about everyone? What about me?