Raising the debt limit on some levels is a ministerial act. It doesn't involve any new spending.

The most critical thing in a negotiation is to get inside your opponent's head and figure out what he really wants.

If you look at the cost of providing health insurance, it actually doesn't cost more to provide a plan with contraceptive coverage than it does without.

If you have a student who graduates from college and they don't have a job, they are now able to stay on their family health plan.

If you don't define the problem you'll never reach a painful solution.

I think there is a shared sense of urgency in Washington on fiscal issues.

I think that for the next short period of time, our No. 1 priority is Congress needs to do its work and extend the payroll tax cut.

Historically, the responsibility for voting on the debt limit has gone to the party in the majority.

Every president since George Washington has taken executive privilege seriously. Every Republican president has.

Europe is trying to get its fiscal house in order.

Most Americans want health insurance.

Those bitter sorrows of childhood!-- when sorrow is all new and strange, when hope has not yet got wings to fly beyond the days and weeks, and the space from summer to summer seems measureless.

Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.

I don't get all this Speedo stuff actually, I mean, whatever happened to the feather boa?

Maturity starts with the willingness to give oneself.

Predators make it much more difficult to find consensus. It's a lot easier to agree about birds and plants than about animals that endanger people and livestock.

It's time that we began to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.

I believe in helping young people rock causes they care about because I was one of those young people... a long time ago.

I don't think I'm really open to having Washington change me.

It must be hard being you,” she said. “Mr. Perfect on the outside. Dr. Evil on the inside.” “It’s not that hard. The rest of the world isn’t as insightful as you.

I'm producing more, but I think to direct, one has to have a burning desire, and that's not me. I'd rather do something else.