There's something wrong when hedge fund managers pay lower tax rates than nurses or the truckers

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.

Your character is your conduct.

So long as one does not despair so long as one doesn't look upon life bitterly things work out fairly well in the end.

As poor as a church mouse.

I tend to forget what I'm doing will ever be read while I'm writing it, and just get on with the task at hand.

Arrival = Prison, and the artist must never be a prisoner.

The faults and shortcomings we see in the members of our own ward or branch are of less consequence to us than one of the smallest in ourselves.

He hit the post, and after the game people will say, well, he hit the post.

The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper - whether little or great, it belongs to Literature.

A great mind is one that can forget or look beyond itself.