Well, a deficit reflects an imbalance between spending and revenue, and so narrowing it requires acting on one, the other or both.

Every day is like that, eight successive meetings on eight different topics, every one really important and interesting.

Something that's unsustainable, like a dysfunctional relationship, can go on longer than you expect, and then end faster and messier than you think.

Well, I think what we need to remember is that budget deficits can impede economic activity.

It is a foregone opportunity that we could have a trillion dollars more of income for the United States if we were producing at capacity rather than falling so far short of it.

Social Security faces a long-term actuarial deficit, yes.

My mom is a very warm, typical sort of Jewish-mother type. And my dad has a somewhat, um, different personality.

Total borrowing has imploded. Private borrowing has collapsed. And, in effect, the Treasury Department is the last borrower left standing.

For example, I was privileged to be working at the White House under the Clinton administration and had not finished my Ph.D., and I thought I was the cat's meow.

There've been times where I wondered whether it was worth continuing in my own education.

Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?

The Iranians may simply try to run out the clock.

There is nothing worse that a thirteen-year-old boy. You're embarrassed by your parents, and you're trying to find your independance because, deep inside, you are so dependent on your mom.

The real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway.

Feeling insignificant because the universe is large has exactly the same logic as feeling inadequate for not being a cow.

I know for me, and what the Bible teaches, I want to have a relationship with Jesus.

Why Christians do what they do is just as important as what they do. Bad motives ruin good acts.

One word, that's all you said and something in your voice caused me to turn my head. Your smile just captured me.

I will say what I aspire to is a consistency in making films, to direct something every couple of years.

Sure, occasion is the father of most that is good in us.