Never be easy for any president to deal with any Congress. But republicans got to work together. We got to get things done.

There is only one group to blame for the continued suffering of these innocent victims: the House majority and their Speaker John Boehner.

America under Barack Obama has become a defensive, reactive and weaker country both at home and abroad.

I can guarantee you this, that more pension and benefit reforms which I will consider arbitration reform to be one of them, are things that when they come to my desk, they will be signed.

You know, something may be going down tonight, but it ain’t going to be jobs, sweetheart!

The greatness of America is in the American people. And what we need to do is get the government the hell out of the way and let the American people win once again.

They believe in teachers unions. We believe in teachers.

You see, Mr. President - real leaders don't follow polls. Real leaders change polls.

Today is the day for the complaining to end and for statesmanship to begin. Today I am taking action to cut state spending and balance the budget this year.

I am who I am, but I am not a bully.

I have a job to do. ... If you think right now I give a damn about presidential politics, then you don't know me.

A good writer is one that can see the goodness in others and helps them to be better.

Entrepreneurs are selected to be just doers, not thinkers, and doers do, they don't talk.

In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution.

If man were happy, he would be the more so, the less he was diverted, like the saints and God.

Be grateful for your journey because it is yours alone.

I am not at all in favor of hard work for its own sake; many people who work very hard indeed produce terrible things, and should most certainly not be encouraged.

The truth, of course, is that the only necessary and sufficient condition for human beings to murder one another is the simple fact of being human.

What day is so festal it fails to reveal some theft?

By bringing the past into the present, we create a future just like the past. By letting the past go, we make room for miracles.

History consists of a series of accumulated imaginative inventions.