The legal system in Afghanistan is very immature and porous.

What's going on in the Senate is kind of a politics of escalation. We're getting sort of like the Mideast: pay back everybody when you're in charge.

Social Security must be preserved and strengthened. But we need to be candid about the costs and willing to make the tough choices that real reform will require.

We cannot win this war on terror if people are undercutting us. And one way to undercut us is to empower Iran.

What is the environmental platform of the Republican party? I don't know either.

Some people say I'm too blunt and I'm too direct, too straightforward. I think we could use some of that in Washington, D.C.

We’re not generating enough angry white guys to stay in business for the long term.

Dishonest, which is Hillary Clinton in the eyes of the American people, beats crazy. Dishonest loses to normal. So, let's just pick somebody out of the phone book if we have to.

It's really American to avoid paying taxes, legally.

The sooner we get started with alternative energy sources and recognize that fossil fuels makes us less secure as a nation, and more dangerous as a planet, the better off we'll be.

I'm running because I think the world is falling apart.

May you find strength for your daily work.

I have what takes to get the job done.

I am beginning to understand the way in which memories hold us, mindfully, to the earth, by the quality of attention paid that they require to be made at all.

A river is a river, independent of whether there are other rivers nearby. In science, we call things what they are based on their attributes, not what they're next to.

The patient decides when it's best to go.

I definitely care. I'm very competitive, but I am satisfied with my delivery and that I only missed with a few pitches.

Prosperity comes from leaving people free in a legal system that respects their persons and property so they can pursue their dreams while taking responsibility for their actions.

Art is like a shipwreck; it's every man for himself.

It's some chopped liver. That's Jewish soul food.

Because a thing is eloquently expressed it should not be taken to be as necessarily true; nor because it is uttered with stammering lips should it be supposed false.