Most Americans want health insurance.

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 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.

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.

No system that implies control of society by privilege seekers has ever ended any other way but collapse

Work was like a stick. It had two ends. When you worked for the knowing you gave them quality

He could make mistakes.... the first time.

For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart.

What we need to realize is that there can be, shall we say, a movement, a stirring among people, which can be organically designed instead of politically designed.

An actress once advised me, 'Make sure you do your own laundry - it will keep you honest.'

Thou shalt not horn in on thy husbands racket

I was one of those fortunate individuals who grew up in a large, passionate, demonstrative Italian family where we were taught to love as naturally as we breathed and ate giant bowls of pasta!

True happiness brings more richness than all the money in the world.

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