Near-term deficits are temporary and manageable if - and only if - we keep spending in check, the tax burden low and the economy growing.

I don't think anyone should pick a candidate for any office based solely on gender. That would be, I believe, a mistake.

The budget is tight, and that is exactly where we want it to be and where we need it to be.

There is no question we are having a difficult time rounding up the votes.

There will be fiscal issues that are appropriate to discuss.

There's a fine line in being too specific so you can't be too flexible, and being too vague in being specific and people not thinking it's meaningful.

The reform of government needs to continue.

Certainly accountability of government is what people are clamoring for; they want to know that when lawmakers make a promise or a proposal, you can actually accomplish it.

It made our presence in the world meaningful

Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Those who follow are always behind.

The new year has begun for us. / Now must God grant us with love / That we may be able so to begin it / That it may be of value for Love.

There is very little in civilized life that demands everything you got intellectually, physically, and emotionally. Driving is living. It's aggressive instead of passive living.

Mathematics is an experimental science, and definitions do not come first, but later on.

If you have a lot of nature in your city, it becomes a more enjoyable place. That's my own feeling about it.

You're not someone I could forget," he murmured.

Whenever there is a catastrophe, some religious people inevitably ask, 'Why didn't God do something? Where was God when all those people died?'

In some cases, I would not want us to follow their [Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton] pattern. I do not believe they are setting the best example.