That's important, I think, for people who come here to realize that we are here for only a time and we have an obligation of service and we need to keep things in perspective.

The difficulty for Mr. Obama will be when the public sees where his decisions lead - higher inflation, higher interest rates, higher taxes, sluggish growth, and a jobless recovery.

As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.

At the core, we are dealing with two parties that have fundamentally different views of the world.

I think it's dawning on some Democrats that obstructing the Patriot Act, like they've been obstructing everything else, is bad for them politically.

You may end up with a different math, but you're entitled to your math. I'm entitled to the math.

If we do with Latinos what we did with African-Americans, Republicans and conservatives will be doomed.

What Mr. Obama wants in a nominee isn't really 'empathy' and 'understanding.' He wants a liberal, activist Supreme Court justice.

If you really want to diminish a candidate, depict him as the foil of his handler. This is as old in American politics as politics itself.

For a person who promised hope and civility in politics, Mr. Obama has shown a borderline obsessiveness in blaming Mr. Bush.

Mr. Obama has an ingenious approach to job losses: He describes them as job gains.

And so I pray I am today as honestwith myself, with life all around me and below and above me, with all who I encounter.

To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

Yes, this is what good is: to forgive evil. There is no other good.

I found fame to be somewhat of a prison. The more famous you were, the smaller the cell that you had to live in.

I be off the slave ships, building pyramids, writing my own hieroglyphs

My daily conversation, it consists of hustle. Grinding from the bottom sick and tired of struggle.

Earlier in my career, I was really tight, really together, and knew who I was and I was confident. I kind of feel in between now.

Until quite recently dance in America was the ragged Cinderella of the arts . . .

Football is and always will be a game of blocking and hitting