Whose leadership, whose judgment, whose values do you want in the White House when that lands like a thud on the oval office desk?

We invoke the sacrifices of our fallen heroes in the abstract, but we seldom take time to thank them individually.

You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that: it’s an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.

I wake up some mornings hating me too.

Take your f***ing tampon out and tell me what you have to say.

You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.

We're bending the law as far as we can to ban an entirely new class of guns.

A strong economy depends on a strong middle class, but George Bush has put the middle class in a hole, and John McCain has a plan to keep digging that hole with George Bush's shovel.

Because of the president’s leadership, every American will have access to affordable, quality health care.

Republicans are 'bad people who deserve a two-by-four upside their heads.'

Permitting and protecting even the smallest acts of abuse by a tiny fraction of our officers leads to a culture where extreme acts of abuse are more likely.

A person who falsely believes he or she is knowledgeable will not seek out clarification of his or her beliefs, but rather rely on his or her ignorant position.

When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.

I see no kind of reason to not just try everything. I mean, I feel like we all have such varied tastes, and to not just try our tastes is a crime.

Sloppy language leads to sloppy thought, and sloppy thought to sloppy legislation.

The heart of the People, North and South, is for the Union.

I don't consciously seek out Australian projects. I put them on the same table as all the other scripts and I wouldn't ever do a film just because it's been shot at home.

Failures don't plan to fail; they fail to plan.

In science, the old men are usually wrong. But in politics, the old men are wise, counsel caution, and in the end are often right.

To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs; and it is necessary to follow, in order to lead.

The sightless Milton, with his hair Around his placid temples curled; And Shakespeare at his side,-a freight, If clay could think and mind were weight, For him who bore the world!