I think President Obama is a committed, practicing nonideologue. He's consumed by neither tactics nor ideology. He is more concerned about outcomes than he is about process and categorizations

I have never believed in the Wizard of Oz theory of consulting, that I am all-knowing and all-seeing, and that everyone around me is kind of a backbencher

Any time you have loose ballots, you have to worry about shenanigans. It's a shame such a hard-fought election has to come down to something like this.

I'm a kibitzer with a broad portfolio.

We don't want to go back to the same policies and practicies that drove our economy into a ditch, that punished the middle class, and that led to this catastrophe. We keep moving forward.

I think that more and more you're going to see people of good will on their side of the aisle say you know what, we got to get off the bus here, this is not headed in the right direction.

I think those autoworkers whose industry would have collapsed if the president hadn't intervened are certainly better off.

This marketplace where people can buy insurance who don't have it today, a competitive marketplace - that's an idea that both sides embrace.

I think that the millions and millions of young Americans, young Americans, who have health care today, who wouldn't have had it if the president hadn't acted are better off.

I think the average American recognizes that it took years to create the crisis that erupted in 2008 and peaked in January of 2009. And it's going to take some time to work through it.

I think the millions of people who had been able to renegotiate their mortgages so they are paying lower interest rates are better off.

Through tattered clothes great vices do appear

Keep burning the flame of discontent within you until you get the joy of satisfaction.

Great leaders don't rush to blame. They instinctively look for solutions.

I've learned after doing a couple records that if it feels good and it's easy, then that's usually a good sign. And that feeling sorta went with us to Nashville - everything was just natural.

If a lack of empirical foundations is a defect of the theory of logical probability, it is also a defect of deductive logic.

Democracy allows for A and B to band together to rip off C. This is not justice, but a moral outrage.

Government-run schools can't instill morals and character.

I just couldn't go back to Suddenly Susan after David Strickland's suicide. I didn't see how we could make the show light and funny any more.

Truth is independent of facts always.

Your leadership depends on you. You can only be a great leader when you can lead yourself well first.