It is an apple full of worms compared to an apple that's fresh and delicious.

Benghazi happened a long time ago.

The president assured the chancellor that the United States is not monitoring and will not monitor the communications of the chancellor.

Raising the debt ceiling is not additional spending. It is simply saying, you, the United States of America, can continue to borrow the money you need to pay the bills you have already rung up.

When I go stand up at the podium in front of the White House press corps, I never lie. I never say something that I know is untrue. Credibility is enormously important to a press secretary.

What we see happening with this Republican strategy is a willingness to threaten the very foundation of the world's greatest economic power. That is a very risky proposition.

Find the video that has been so offensive to Muslims to be disgusting and reprehensible.

I'm going to work night and day to make sure that Americans get the tax relief that they need and deserve, and that our economy needs and deserves.

I was extremely excited personally about the Obama-Biden victory.

Children should not be used as pawns in a political fight.

Well, I haven't seen the records. I haven't seen Hilary Rosen; I personally know three Hilary Rosen's, so I don't know that this Hilary Rosen is the one we're talking about.

Like many people who became sick, I found that researching man-made radiation immersed me into a corporate world of lie, confuse and deny.

Thank god he wasn't a writer, or he'd have nothing to write about.

I know the consequences, Manon, ” Ilyse conceded. “I know the fate you endured might one day be my own. But I refuse to be a prisoner for the rest of my life.

Some people still believe you should just fall in line with whats going on - and thats scary. It makes a mockery of freedom of speech.

There is hardly any mental misery worse than that of having our own serious phrases, our own rooted beliefs, caricatured by a charlatan or a hireling.

If the golden gate of preferment is not usually opened to men of real merit, persons of no worth have entered it in a most extraordinary manner.

The essence of a novelist is to invent things and speak the truth, at the same time.

A fool tries to look different: a clever man looks the same and is different.

Sea level rise and destruction of water resources as glaciers melt alone may have horrendous human consequences.

I do not see how it is possible for an intelligent human being to conclude that the Song of Solomon is the work of God, and that the tragedy of Lear was the work of an uninspired man.