If you look at the cost of providing health insurance, it actually doesn't cost more to provide a plan with contraceptive coverage than it does without.

The most critical thing in a negotiation is to get inside your opponent's head and figure out what he really wants.

Raising the debt limit on some levels is a ministerial act. It doesn't involve any new spending.

If you have a student who graduates from college and they don't have a job, they are now able to stay on their family health plan.

If you don't define the problem you'll never reach a painful solution.

I think there is a shared sense of urgency in Washington on fiscal issues.

I think that for the next short period of time, our No. 1 priority is Congress needs to do its work and extend the payroll tax cut.

Historically, the responsibility for voting on the debt limit has gone to the party in the majority.

Every president since George Washington has taken executive privilege seriously. Every Republican president has.

Europe is trying to get its fiscal house in order.

Most Americans want health insurance.

...Don't insult readers by questioning the extent of their imaginations. Most need only to be nudged to solve a good mystery.

As I get older, I want to draw on my experience to make roles better. I see that in the older women who inspire me - their experience makes them better.

You have to believe in happiness, or happiness never comes Ah, that's the reason a bird can sing - On his darkest day he believes in spring.

The novel is rescued life.

Part of being a writer is feeling that constant dissatisfaction, thinking about what else you could do, and also knowing when it's time to leave a project.

In death as in life, we stand together, always a family, always a team. The brotherhood never dies.

I don't think you can ever return, really.

The older I get, the more I feel.

Hate is a hole that exists in your heart; and the more that you hate, the more you fall apart.

Philosophical reflection could not leave the relation of mind and spirit in the obscurity which had satisfied the needs of the naive consciousness.