I like being powerful. I hope it doesn't go to my head. If somebody's going to have it, it might just as soon be me. There's always power, and it's just a matter of in whose hands it falls.

I agree that we must expand opportunities for retirement saving, but we must not undermine this worthy effort with a flawed privatization scheme that takes the 'security' out of Social Security.

The South has not always been the friendliest place for African-Americans.

A penny saved is not a penny earned if at the end of the day you still owe a quarter.

Our solutions must be beyond anything we have ever considered. We should not be afraid to try bold new approaches.

The high price of health care in this country is a serious issue that demands serious attention. Putting limits on damages have little or no effect on skyrocketing malpractice insurance rates.

The president's budget request today demonstrates his unwillingness to come clean on the true costs of his agenda. A penny saved is not a penny earned if at the end of the day you still owe a quarter

Do you know how many houses all of the nonprofits have built? No more than 5,000 in five years. Do you know how many we lost? 200,000.

From politics and business to music and food to culture, African-Americans have helped to shape our state's colourful past and its future.

If I had to vote for the bill again, I'd vote for it tomorrow.

Democracy still has a real hope and chance in Iraq, and true freedom in this country would be the greatest testament to those who gave their lives for it

Solitude allows you to sit down and work out a system that works best for you.

I felt like I had the weight of the world on my shoulders until I REALIZED I had the power to take it off

Never trust a man with a lunatic wife in an attic, " Richard told me. "And anyone named Heathcliff should make you suspicious.

Life's challenges are opportunities for personal growth.

We should start being intolerant to those who are intolerant to us. This is not modern logic, this is not extreme, this is common sense.

As long as we have our stories there is hope.

The big fish run the show. I'm a middle fish, but there are small fish that are poisonous.

I really think that women should be allowed to be more European, in this country.

I hardly ever missed school, and I always got my work in on time. I was a good student and always got top grades.

I have no complaints with the whole childhood acting thing, because I wanted to do it.