Students of America, working families of America: President Obama will not turn his back on you.

In the executive branch, winning by a whisker is as good as winning in a landslide, but not so in the Senate.

Israelis can be proud of the vibrant democracy that they have created, and I know that many Rhode Islanders share my deep appreciation for the close friendship between our two nations.

Trust is built with consistency.

The lack of fiscal responsibility is one of the main reasons I finally left my old Party.

Anger's not a good emotion.

Here is a bold embrace of internationalism. Let's join the rest of the world and go metric.

In the world of diplomacy, some things are better left unsaid.

Well, usually when you talk about a mandate, you're talking about an overwhelming win. I don't think by any measurement the 2004 election was an overwhelming win.

Reform of the medical liability system should be considered as part of a comprehensive response to surging medical malpractice premiums that endanger Americans' access to quality medical care.

Let me ask you: Should only children of the wealthy have access to quality early education? Should only children of the wealthy have access to a college degree? The answer - the only answer - is: no.

I’ve seen and done things that will give you nightmares, but only you, Julia, only you have the power to bring me to my knees.

Darkness disturbedBy the haunting white moonlightGrey half clouds fail to containThe moon's lust for the night.

As soon as you start asking what education is for, what the use of it is, you're abandoning the basic assumption of any true culture, that education is worth while for its own sake.

What I and other commentators do is attempt to move the public opinion. We try to change minds.

Like good wine, marriage gets better with age - once you learn to keep a cork in it.

men never would share power with women willingly. If we wanted it, we would have to take it.

I definitely had some moments, where, "Wow, these were some hard chords" on some gig.

I also became inspired by impressionist painters such as Renoir, and wanted to do the same sort of thing with music-portray whatever mood strikes me the way Keith Jarrett does on piano.

When the human mind exists in the light of reason and no more than reason, we may say with absolute certainty that Man and all that made him will be in that instant gone.

Policy is driven by more than politics, however. It is equally driven by ideas.