In a couple of days, it will be 40 days, 40 hours, 40 years in the desert - 40 is fraught with meaning and symbolism.

Unemployment benefits are creating jobs faster than practically any other program

Every month that we do not have an economic recovery package 500 million Americans lose their jobs.

Hamas is a humanitarian organization.

But we have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy.

If I had my way, sporting guns would be strictly regulated, the rest would be confiscated

I believe in natural gas as a clean, cheap alternative to fossil fuels.

Pass the bill to find out what's in it

As many of you know, I came from San Francisco. We don't have a lot of farms there. Well, we do have one - it's a mushroom farm, so you know what that means.

Civilization as we know it today would be in jeopardy if the Republicans win the Senate.

I don’t remember saying that everybody in the country would have a lower premium.

What are you going to do? "Can't say - run for president, write -" "Greenwich Village?" "Good heavens, no - I said write - not drink.

She lost touch with reality and was dragged into her imagination.

No one could ever meet death for his country without the hope of immortality.

You have to be interested in inequality. The issue of inequality and that of poverty are not separable.

Your most dangerous competitors are those that are most like you.

'To die is gain!' That kind of talk is absolutely foreign to our modern, spiritual vocabularies. We have become such life worshippers, we have very little desire to depart to be with the Lord.

If you're a queen, you're powerless, so I'd probably demote myself and go shopping.

The social contract is starting to unravel in many countries.

Whether you do something or decide to do nothing, either way, you are making a moral choice. And I hope people make the right one.

You write your first draft with your heart and you re-write with your head. The first key to writing is to write, not to think.