When I go stand up at the podium in front of the White House press corps, I never lie. I never say something that I know is untrue. Credibility is enormously important to a press secretary.

Benghazi happened a long time ago.

The president assured the chancellor that the United States is not monitoring and will not monitor the communications of the chancellor.

Raising the debt ceiling is not additional spending. It is simply saying, you, the United States of America, can continue to borrow the money you need to pay the bills you have already rung up.

What we see happening with this Republican strategy is a willingness to threaten the very foundation of the world's greatest economic power. That is a very risky proposition.

Find the video that has been so offensive to Muslims to be disgusting and reprehensible.

I'm going to work night and day to make sure that Americans get the tax relief that they need and deserve, and that our economy needs and deserves.

I was extremely excited personally about the Obama-Biden victory.

It is an apple full of worms compared to an apple that's fresh and delicious.

Children should not be used as pawns in a political fight.

Well, I haven't seen the records. I haven't seen Hilary Rosen; I personally know three Hilary Rosen's, so I don't know that this Hilary Rosen is the one we're talking about.

The bible and the church have been the greatest stumbling block in the way of women's emancipation.

The further you go, the more you're going to need the people you started with.

Oh, God, to know you is life. To serve You is freedom. To praise you is the soul's joy and delight. Guard me with the power of Your grace here and in all places. Now and at all times, forever. Amen.

Never give in or give up easily on a cause.

I don't care if New York avoided bankruptcy by substituting tourism for the garment business.

If books could have more, give more, be more, show more, they would still need readers who bring to them sound and smell and light and all the rest that can’t be in books. The book needs you.

That takes a lot of confidence to let your actors come up with something that could be theoretically funnier than what you had envisioned originally.

I think our people in Britain have a normative expectation of ethical conduct.

That the soft overcomes the hard, and the yielding overcomes the resistant, is a fact known by all, but practiced by few.

Historically courts in this country have been insulated. We do not look beyond our borders for precedents.