Someone has to stay on the line and say, no, we can do this by cutting spending and reducing the size of government. That's what I was committed to doing.

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.

The exceeding brightness of this early sunMakes me conceive how dark I have become.

Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.

Power only tires those who don't exercise it.

I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.

His smile was sexy and warned of trouble, but I'd made up my mind that not all trouble was bad.

I am not interested in politics at all. At home, around the dinner table, we never discuss politics.

Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.

It's not the case that carbon dioxide drives temperatures. When you leave Ice Ages, it's the other way around: The temperatures go up first, and then carbon dioxide levels go up.

There’s something really rich and powerful in not talking about what you need to talk about sometimes.

There will never be a perfectly good or bad world, because the very idea is a contradiction in terms.