Social Security was always supposed to be basically, in theory, an insurance program where you pay in and then you get out.

Derivatives are a huge, complex issue.

I think, like everybody else in New Hampshire, when I pull up to fill up my car and I pay $50, I get upset. And I'm wondering if these prices are legitimate.

We invaded Iraq to change a totalitarian, despotic regime, and we have been successful there.

Elections have consequences.

Most people get their politics, obviously, from TV shows about senators or movies about them or... all the day-to-day press and the talk shows.

The president deserves someone who can block for his policies.

I think I could have worked for the Clinton administration.

I don't rule out anything in my future.

I think it is important that we all try and be green where it is possible; an awareness of the world around us can never be a bad thing.

You have safety and soundness as primary purpose of the Federal Reserve, the OCC, and the other agencies which control banking regulation.

Years have passed since I have set foot in a comedy club. If the comic is doing badly it's painful, and if the comic is doing brilliantly, it's extremely painful.

I just woke up and found a large butterfly on me. When did that happen?

Something the heart must have to cherish, Must love and joy and sorrow learn; Something with passion clasp, or perish And in itself to ashes burn.

I felt sorry for the match ball - it came off the pitch crying.

No one in Washington realizes you can't borrow money endlessly.

My accomplishments are endless.

Don't give up, cause despair sucks

I did my best work in The Mosquito Coast. I know it wasn't such a big hit, but for me it was more meaningful than anything else I'd ever done.

The worst time to take a survey is in the middle of a cataclysmic event.

The law for religious freedom... [has]put down the aristocracy of the clergy and restored to the citizen the freedom of the mind.