There's bound to be a recovery in [capital spending] sometime soon. We have had basically no capital investment for about year. At some point, machinery wears out, and you've got to replace it.

People are increasingly concerned about unemployment, but Republicans have nothing to offer them.

Rick Perry's an idiot, and I don't think anyone would disagree with that.

I believe any decline would lock in a Fed increase with some certainty.

With all due respect to Speaker Hastert, trying to eliminate the IRS by adopting a national retail sales tax is a very dumb idea.

So I think we shouldn't be overly concerned about the decline in personal saving at this particular moment and time, but it's something we certainly need to keep an eye on.

The break for me was the Medicare drug benefit in 2003. It's just grossly expensive, bad policy. After that, I no longer gave them the benefit of the doubt and started seeing the glass as half-empty.

Democrats will play the old Washington game of calling reductions in the rate of growth of spending for any program a 'cut'.

If you only go around once in life, then why has that one gone around more than once?

If the world is unjust, get drunk, wave a sword, then cut off heads.

Not to be provoked is best but if moved never correct till the fume is spent for every stroke our fury strikes is sure to hit ourselves at last.

The Empire State Building is the closest thing to heaven in this city.

Hey, I like this: early nothing.

A whole life can be shaped by an old trauma, remembered or not.

People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world.

I want to try new creative things and find refreshing stories. That's how I've come to choose the roles that I've done.

The monster, fanaticism, still exists, and whoever seeks after truth will run the risk of being persecuted.

To succeed [,] consider what is as though it were past, deem yourself inevitable and take credit for it. If you no longer believe, enlarge the temple.