The president's budget request today demonstrates his unwillingness to come clean on the true costs of his agenda. A penny saved is not a penny earned if at the end of the day you still owe a quarter

I agree that we must expand opportunities for retirement saving, but we must not undermine this worthy effort with a flawed privatization scheme that takes the 'security' out of Social Security.

The South has not always been the friendliest place for African-Americans.

A penny saved is not a penny earned if at the end of the day you still owe a quarter.

Our solutions must be beyond anything we have ever considered. We should not be afraid to try bold new approaches.

The high price of health care in this country is a serious issue that demands serious attention. Putting limits on damages have little or no effect on skyrocketing malpractice insurance rates.

Do you know how many houses all of the nonprofits have built? No more than 5,000 in five years. Do you know how many we lost? 200,000.

From politics and business to music and food to culture, African-Americans have helped to shape our state's colourful past and its future.

If I had to vote for the bill again, I'd vote for it tomorrow.

I like being powerful. I hope it doesn't go to my head. If somebody's going to have it, it might just as soon be me. There's always power, and it's just a matter of in whose hands it falls.

Democracy still has a real hope and chance in Iraq, and true freedom in this country would be the greatest testament to those who gave their lives for it

Work to enjoy life. Work to create value. Work to survive, strive and thrive. But do not work...to work.

In great moments life seems neither right nor wrong but something greater: it seems inevitable.

You've got to grow up sometime.

Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.

Crazy people are not crazy if one accepts their reasoning.

Travel, like dreams, is a door that opens from the real world into a world that is yet to be discovered

If there is no enjoyment in this world, there would not be so much suffering. As suffering really is the frustration of our attempts to enjoy.

When I pick up the guitar, it's a melody, and that's what drives the lyrics. It's bits and pieces of truth, but it is storytelling.

I compulsively reach for perfection in music, often at the expense of everything else in my life.

The woods of Arcady are dead, And over is their antique joy; Of old the world on dreaming fed Gray Truth is now her painted toy.