If you don't define the problem you'll never reach a painful solution.

The most critical thing in a negotiation is to get inside your opponent's head and figure out what he really wants.

Raising the debt limit on some levels is a ministerial act. It doesn't involve any new spending.

If you look at the cost of providing health insurance, it actually doesn't cost more to provide a plan with contraceptive coverage than it does without.

If you have a student who graduates from college and they don't have a job, they are now able to stay on their family health plan.

I think there is a shared sense of urgency in Washington on fiscal issues.

I think that for the next short period of time, our No. 1 priority is Congress needs to do its work and extend the payroll tax cut.

Historically, the responsibility for voting on the debt limit has gone to the party in the majority.

Every president since George Washington has taken executive privilege seriously. Every Republican president has.

Europe is trying to get its fiscal house in order.

Most Americans want health insurance.

Anger precedes hate, while love vicariously hangs in the balance.

CHANGE YOUR MIND IT WILL CHANGE YOU LIFE - CHANGE IS GOOD

We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs.

If our thoughts can change our actions, reverse is also possible. Our Actions can Change Our Thoughts!

Calling holistic medicine "alternative medicine" is no longer appropriate. The best approach now is "integrated medicine" in which we take the best of both worlds.

For the Holy Ghost blesses us with optimism and wisdom at times of challenge that we simply cannot muster on our own.

I'm a fan of the truth... even if it's painfully hard to accept.

In the future, in a saner system, we would design products not to wear out and break down; to last as long as possible, so that the responsibility of the service sector would not be overloaded.

Unless virtue guide us our choice must be wrong.

The moon does not think to be reflected, nor does the water think to reflect, in the Hirosawa Pond.