No parent at home is saying my gosh, if we can just get a higher minimum wage, all of our aspirations have been realized.

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.

I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart for so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can be together all the time.

Well, all I can say is that people know I'm not saying anything out of malice.

Ugliness corrupts not only the eyes, but also the heart and mind.

When rock music came in, I wasn't bitter about it. I was puzzled.

The whole secret of the teacher's force lies in the conviction that men are convertible.

Scientifically, happiness is a choice. It is a choice about where your single processor brain will devote its finite resources as you process the world.

Martin Sheen is my pinup! And Allison Janney, oh my God. They're brilliant actors.

Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.

Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.

In phrases as brief as a breath worldly wisdom concentrates.