Social Security faces a long-term actuarial deficit, yes.

Well, a deficit reflects an imbalance between spending and revenue, and so narrowing it requires acting on one, the other or both.

Every day is like that, eight successive meetings on eight different topics, every one really important and interesting.

Something that's unsustainable, like a dysfunctional relationship, can go on longer than you expect, and then end faster and messier than you think.

Well, I think what we need to remember is that budget deficits can impede economic activity.

It is a foregone opportunity that we could have a trillion dollars more of income for the United States if we were producing at capacity rather than falling so far short of it.

My mom is a very warm, typical sort of Jewish-mother type. And my dad has a somewhat, um, different personality.

Total borrowing has imploded. Private borrowing has collapsed. And, in effect, the Treasury Department is the last borrower left standing.

For example, I was privileged to be working at the White House under the Clinton administration and had not finished my Ph.D., and I thought I was the cat's meow.

There've been times where I wondered whether it was worth continuing in my own education.

Only lost photographs that were never taken know what my mind speaks of when we are alone together.

Danielle had never started a business. But if others can do it, so can I.

It's crazy how the world evolves and the audience gives you an opportunity to really grow and live out your dreams.

When people are convinced you want something FOR them rather than something FROM them, they are less likely to be offended when you challenge them.

I think you always feel braver in another language.

There is a place in you that you don't even know exists, where you can simply stand back and watch without feeling any pain.

The Notebook ... that’s my favorite one. I’ve read that book 30 times. It gives a true depiction of two people that are in love.

I was in the underground until I left Germany.

One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty.

Justice is the constant and perpetual will to allot to every man his due.