Something that's unsustainable, like a dysfunctional relationship, can go on longer than you expect, and then end faster and messier than you think.

Well, a deficit reflects an imbalance between spending and revenue, and so narrowing it requires acting on one, the other or both.

Every day is like that, eight successive meetings on eight different topics, every one really important and interesting.

Well, I think what we need to remember is that budget deficits can impede economic activity.

It is a foregone opportunity that we could have a trillion dollars more of income for the United States if we were producing at capacity rather than falling so far short of it.

Social Security faces a long-term actuarial deficit, yes.

My mom is a very warm, typical sort of Jewish-mother type. And my dad has a somewhat, um, different personality.

Total borrowing has imploded. Private borrowing has collapsed. And, in effect, the Treasury Department is the last borrower left standing.

For example, I was privileged to be working at the White House under the Clinton administration and had not finished my Ph.D., and I thought I was the cat's meow.

There've been times where I wondered whether it was worth continuing in my own education.

You'll be able to find the strength to love someone just that much again once you've recovered from the heartbreak

The road simply ended. No cul-de-sac. No sign like the ones they had seen before: "Private Property. No Trespassing." Or "No Motorized Vehicles Beyond This Point." Just road...then trees.

What price would God demand from the churches for having the audacity to lighten the color of his son's skin, and straighten out his nappy hair?

Probably, if you are successful in this world you are stressed, and if you are a failure, you are bored!

You should get married. When I was younger, I was into the fame and fortune, and now I realize that a loving wife and happy children - that's life's greatest consolation prize.

The groundsell speakes not save what it heard at the hinges.

But in the end our government usually - not unfailingly - is responsive to the people; and usually - not always - will try to do what is right.

In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason.

Every nation determines its own destiny; the clever the nation, the better the fate!

Make your upper limit, no limit.