President Clinton was able to achieve budget surpluses despite a divided government.

If we don't change, millions of American families are just one medical emergency, or one layoff, away from financial disaster and bankruptcy.

Conservative think tanks like the Heritage Foundation and Cato Institute have criticized Bush for his big increases in spending, which far exceed those of the Clinton era.

This Congress is simply not doing its job under Republican leadership.

It took the first 204 years of our Nation's history to accumulate $1 trillion in debt. And now we are doing that every 2 or 3 years.

While tax refunds amount to substantial income for many Americans, current IRS rules do not allow taxpayers to directly deposit their refund into more than one account.

Take the veto. Bush is the first president since James Garfield in 1881 not to veto a single bill. Garfield only had six months in office; Bush has had over four years.

Equality under the law is the slow triumph of hope over history.

Politicians are terrified of losing touch with folks back home but content to be clueless about governments failure to fix real problems.

Bush may be a strong leader in the war on terrorism, but on budget deficits he is missing-in-action.

It's not just that families can't buy a home or start a business without some savings tucked away.

My attitude to writing is like when you do wallpapering, you remember where all the little bits are that don't meet. And then your friends say: It's terrific!

You try to do the best with what you've got and ignore everything else. That's why horses get blinders in horse racing: You look at the horse next to you, and you lose a step.

So he held her and he prayed. Shafts of moonlight on his face. But the baby in her womb, He was the maker of the moon. He was the author of the fate that could make the mountains move.

If it brings me to my knees, it's a bad religion

I haven't heard from Elvis since his daughter married Michael Jackson. I think it killed him.

A lot of times in cinema today the women are overly sentimental, so I constantly try to do the opposite. I like strident women.

Never do things that you will regret later.

I don't care what people think about me because I know I am more than all the pain and strife they hold inside.

Our greatest lack is not money for any undertaking, but rather ideas, If the ideas are good, cash will somehow flow to where it is needed.

I have great memories of being a Cub, and I'm happy building new ones with the Phillies.