The Americans are optimistic by their nature. And they are hopeful.

Now we are raising the debt limit 3 times, up to $8 trillion, so that our children and our grandchildren will have to pay for the cost of our expenditures.

At his Philadelphia alma mater, Temple University, Cosby gave commencement addresses and attended games. He served on the university's board of trustees for more than three decades.

Currently, more than 4.7 million African Americans receive Social Security benefits, and nearly 8 million people with disabilities depend on Social Security for their daily sustenance.

This program that the Republican majority has taken us toward as a country is leading us to fiscal bankruptcy.

There's not an appropriations bill in the last 10 years that the-that Democrats passed in the Congress. We haven't spent any money of your taxes in the last decade.

African American children can't be educationally disadvantaged for 12 years and then experience a miracle cure when it comes time for admission into college.

Without Social Security, poverty rates for African American seniors would more than double.

Now, so, if you want to blame someone for wasteful spending, the Republicans are in the majority.

While Social Security faces some long-term challenges, the system is not in crisis.

We need to have Bill Cosby month in Philadelphia.

You can read the word of God, but without mediation and prayer, we become spiritually weak and unfilled.

It proposed that human beings, by the act of making witness, warranted times and places for their existence other than the time and place they were living through.

Some days we lose all at once and somedays we get all back at once. But either way, Accept it.

Hurry is not of the devil; hurry is the devil.

Classical music is this music that was written by a bunch of dead people a long time ago.

There's a lot more to be learned, and I'm going to learn all the way up to the stairway to the stars

He used to be fairly indecisive, but now he's not so certain.

It was only in the theatre that I lived

I really do like listening to stuff that's happened to other people. I guess that's why I like to read.

I am God and I am coming to find you.