It's a complex system we live in to think the actions that we take have consequences beyond the years in which we serve, and we all have an obligation to do what is best for our country.

The difficulty for Mr. Obama will be when the public sees where his decisions lead - higher inflation, higher interest rates, higher taxes, sluggish growth, and a jobless recovery.

As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.

At the core, we are dealing with two parties that have fundamentally different views of the world.

I think it's dawning on some Democrats that obstructing the Patriot Act, like they've been obstructing everything else, is bad for them politically.

You may end up with a different math, but you're entitled to your math. I'm entitled to the math.

If we do with Latinos what we did with African-Americans, Republicans and conservatives will be doomed.

What Mr. Obama wants in a nominee isn't really 'empathy' and 'understanding.' He wants a liberal, activist Supreme Court justice.

If you really want to diminish a candidate, depict him as the foil of his handler. This is as old in American politics as politics itself.

For a person who promised hope and civility in politics, Mr. Obama has shown a borderline obsessiveness in blaming Mr. Bush.

Mr. Obama has an ingenious approach to job losses: He describes them as job gains.

We got a fightin' side a mile wide, but we pray for peace 'cause it's mostly us that end up servin' overseas.

I love writing Christmas stories, especially of the historical variety.

No one is going to understand your brand better than you.

Golf is my real profession. Entertainment is just a sideline. I tell jokes to pay my greens fees.

The past is like the hair on our head. I moved to New York when I was twelve, but you always have this feeling that wherever you come from, you physically leave it, but it doesn't leave you.

It's hard for a person to try to keep his stuff together being nominated for something and then performing onstage.

I still use quill and parchment. I do e-mails, and I write, but I don't go around surfing too much.

Don't try to beat the goalkeeper...Tr y to destroy the goalkeeper.

That amazing power of being able to stand with total courage in the face of total power and not be afraid. That is stri shakti.

Sometimes we need to tell ourselves that we're not going to do certain things, just in order to stay sane.