You know, at some point there has to be parity. There has to be parity between what is happening in the real world, and what is happening in the public sector world.

There is only one group to blame for the continued suffering of these innocent victims: the House majority and their Speaker John Boehner.

America under Barack Obama has become a defensive, reactive and weaker country both at home and abroad.

I can guarantee you this, that more pension and benefit reforms which I will consider arbitration reform to be one of them, are things that when they come to my desk, they will be signed.

You know, something may be going down tonight, but it ain’t going to be jobs, sweetheart!

The greatness of America is in the American people. And what we need to do is get the government the hell out of the way and let the American people win once again.

They believe in teachers unions. We believe in teachers.

You see, Mr. President - real leaders don't follow polls. Real leaders change polls.

Today is the day for the complaining to end and for statesmanship to begin. Today I am taking action to cut state spending and balance the budget this year.

I am who I am, but I am not a bully.

I have a job to do. ... If you think right now I give a damn about presidential politics, then you don't know me.

Peace is not the absence of war but the absence of fear.

Learn to be true to yourself, and everything good will follow.

We’ve gotten to that stage all soulmates reach of speaking in broken phrases and incomplete sentences, our connected and all-knowing minds filling in the blanks left by redundant words.

When people are bored, it is primarily with their own selves that they are bored.

I do think there is a great deal of caricature around the House of Commons. It is just that kind of place.

There are two types of panicking: standing still and not saying a word, and leaping all over the place babbling anything that comes into your head.

Uncontrollable laughter arose among the blessed gods.

I've always been a mythology lover, and so I took a great deal of inspiration from the tales of various dark gods and popular versions of Hell from the Greeks and the Norse stories.

It is glorious to see such courage in one so young.

I love books about dysfunctional families.