My dad was a city councilman and a county commissioner, so I grew up involved and engaged in the political process.

I don't know of any of us that want to see any kind of default happen.

Our first priority has to be getting our fiscal house in order - and creating an atmosphere for the private sector in job creation.

I started out coming out of college, I had my realtor's license and I did real estate full time for a number of years.

Anger is a poison that affects our thoughts and creates a fire that burns our sweetness of heart.

Everybody’s youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

In places in the world where we don't speak the same language, or even understand that we pray to the same God, we dance to the same beat, that is the ONE.

Fortune and glory, kid. Fortune and glory.

Words mean more than we mean to express when we use them: so a whole book ought to mean a great deal more than the writer meant.

Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.

[Sandra Day O'Connor] is a justice whose graciousness and sense of duty fuels her continued service, even agreeing to serve more than six months after her retirement date.

Love possesses seven hundred wings, and each one extends from the highest heaven to the lowest earth.

I grew up to the sound of live music in our Brooklyn household.

Don't get attached to moments. Good or bad, they all pass.