We need to make sure that joblessness never pays more than employment.

I think we need to prepare for the worst, and so I support energy efficiency measures.

Freedom requires us to view people as wanting the opportunity to earn their success.

Social-impact partnerships address our moral responsibilities to ensure that social programs actually improve recipients lives, and to do so in a fiscally prudent manner.

We may not realize it, but a crucial step in building a healthy economy is helping people move from welfare to work.

Safety-net programs must make efficient use of taxpayer resources and harness the capabilities of recipients by helping them move back into the workforce.

I think natural gas has been a big part of the solution if in fact we need to reduce man-generated carbon dioxide emissions.

Intelligence work in the Marine Corps proved to me the strategic value in establishing a Central Command to act as a clearinghouse for disparate bits and floating bytes of information.

I know now that what is tragic isn’t the moment. It is the memory.

It's almost never the kind of person you are but the kind of job you do decides how much you get paid.

With strength you need two stones to kill two birds

You pick pieces of things you've experienced in life to make it real to yourself.

This is me.’" He handed her the precious scrap of paper. ‘Call me or I’ll call you, but one of us will call, yes? What I mean is it’s not a competition. You don’t lose if you phone first

What reason, like the careful ant, draws laboriously together, the wind of accident sometimes collects in a moment.

I like skiing, among other things, because I have moments when I am alone in the mountains. That's fantastic, when there's nobody around you. You see miles around you, and the sun is almost down .

I'm very impressed that there are so many fans - not just in Japan, but here in America - that are fond of the work that I've done. I'm actually kind of embarrassed by it all.

[O]pulence is always the result of theft, if not committed by the actual possessor, then by his predecessors.

There's this whole sexy thing that happens to women when we walk the red carpet, and it's all okay! At home, I am so many other things! I am just a girl dreaming. I am emotional and goofy.