There's a lot of trust being built up. I think we have a lot of work ahead of us.

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

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

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.

You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.

Failure is usually boring. It is the credible but unrealized threat of failure that is interesting.

Every woman, hell, every man should be a feminist, that is the only way to render this word obsolete.

That demon will trick you faster than a politician with a liquor license.

What the Bible says is what God has disclosed and we want to approach this sacred text with cognitive reverence.

To play a bag woman is brave for any woman.

Little surprises around every corner, but nothing dangerous.

Christ gives peace to the most sinful and miserable that come to Him. He heals the broken in heart and binds up their wounds.

Truth is something so noble that if God could turn aside from it, I could keep the truth and let God go.

I thought I was going to go back to Stanford, and then I got Election. I loved being an actor.