If we can't find cuts in the defense budget, we're not looking carefully enough.

But economic recovery must be earned. And it will be earned by entrepreneurs and it will be earned by small businesses.

The real secret about diplomats is that we're trained to say something, when there is nothing to say, and to say nothing when there is something to say.

Our political debates today are corrosive and not reflective of the belief that Abe Lincoln espoused back in his day: that we are a great country because we are a good country.

To be clear. I believe in evolution and trust scientists on global warming. Call me crazy.

The reality, sitting ten thousand miles away, is that we remain the country that inspires. We remain that shining city on a hill.

My father, one of the great entrepreneurs and philanthropists of this state, taught me that capital - monetary or political - is to be used to benefit others. I intend to continue that tradition.

Politics is a lot of serendipity. You're in the right place and the right time and you've got the right message, and it either connects for you or, or it doesn't.

When America closes its doors, so does everybody else.

It's taken a lot of presidents to get us where we are today, a lot of deployments, a lot of wars, a lot engagements. You add them all up.

I think we have to be very sensitive to our need to compete, moving forward, and a lot of that is tied to tax policy.

To some extent the history of plagiarism is a history of notebooks.

Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking.

A city full of art is a city full of wit!

Christianity [is] a rebellion against natural law, a protest against nature.

I was a waitress. I was pretty good at it. I liked to solve those puzzles-you know, when to put the dinner order in, that sort of thing.

The basis of everything that I plugged into when I was younger was blues, and it always stayed with me.

I've tried to become a singer with the guitar and not let any technological licks run my life. Just write the licks and play them as best as I can as a part rather than ad libbing.

I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.

The fundamental human values all emanate from Dharma, based on Truth. If human behaviour has no such basis, it leads to disaster.

If you must take care that your opinions do not differ in the least from those of the person with whom you are talking, you might just as well be alone.