This war so far has cost us $125 billion and counting, because largely we decided to do it on our own, with only the United Kingdom as a paying, fully participating partner.

We have got thousands of nuclear weapons in order to achieve deterrence.

Just a few short years ago in the year 2000, the last full fiscal year of the Clinton administration, this country was running a surplus of $236 billion.

We developed during the 1990s a series of budget process rules that helped us bring to heel these deficits, diminishing every year and moving the budget so into surplus.

Democrats and Republicans alike support our military personnel.

We need to learn to dance more softly.

For someone who needs refuge, a key is provided.

The only graceful thing to do is recognize and embrace what is actually happening, rather than fight against it.

It's a challenge to express real life in dramatic terms. In an entirely "made-up" story, you are sometimes overwhelmed by the infinite possibilities.

My gratitude to them [my first teachers] grows as I myself grow older.

You know what I like about you? You have no sense. You sit here in my house, you can barely hold a spoon, and you're telling me 'no'. You'd pull on Death's whiskers if you could reach them.

Most of the time, it's not the concept, but the execution of craft that counts.

It is sometimes the most fragile things that have the power to endure and become sources of strength.

It's kind of ironic when I broke in at 17, I was told I was too small, too slow and I wouldn't make the NHL

Every time passionate people fail, they are convinced that they are simply one step closer to fulfilling their dream.