We don't want to go back to the same policies and practicies that drove our economy into a ditch, that punished the middle class, and that led to this catastrophe. We keep moving forward.

I have never believed in the Wizard of Oz theory of consulting, that I am all-knowing and all-seeing, and that everyone around me is kind of a backbencher

Any time you have loose ballots, you have to worry about shenanigans. It's a shame such a hard-fought election has to come down to something like this.

I'm a kibitzer with a broad portfolio.

I think that more and more you're going to see people of good will on their side of the aisle say you know what, we got to get off the bus here, this is not headed in the right direction.

I think President Obama is a committed, practicing nonideologue. He's consumed by neither tactics nor ideology. He is more concerned about outcomes than he is about process and categorizations

I think those autoworkers whose industry would have collapsed if the president hadn't intervened are certainly better off.

This marketplace where people can buy insurance who don't have it today, a competitive marketplace - that's an idea that both sides embrace.

I think that the millions and millions of young Americans, young Americans, who have health care today, who wouldn't have had it if the president hadn't acted are better off.

I think the average American recognizes that it took years to create the crisis that erupted in 2008 and peaked in January of 2009. And it's going to take some time to work through it.

I think the millions of people who had been able to renegotiate their mortgages so they are paying lower interest rates are better off.

sometime life is full of joy, and sometime life is full of pain and tears but we have to defeat it

She had refused to draw the monster. She feared to give him form.

If you can’t find a few minutes every day for yourself, you don’t have a complete life.

Creative activity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

Class never tries to build itself up by tearing others down. Class is already up and need not strive to look better by making others look worse.

It's unrealistic to think that the future of humanity can be achieved only on the basis of prayer; what we need is to take action.

I was born in New Zealand, so I have a lot of family there.

If we would know whether our faith is genuine, we do well to ask ourselves how we are living.

A German sense of humor is an oxymoron.

I always thought I was sort of awkward and goofy-looking. I'm still kind of gangly.