We developed during the 1990s a series of budget process rules that helped us bring to heel these deficits, diminishing every year and moving the budget so into surplus.

We have got thousands of nuclear weapons in order to achieve deterrence.

Just a few short years ago in the year 2000, the last full fiscal year of the Clinton administration, this country was running a surplus of $236 billion.

This war so far has cost us $125 billion and counting, because largely we decided to do it on our own, with only the United Kingdom as a paying, fully participating partner.

Democrats and Republicans alike support our military personnel.

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.

I learn from everything I do, right and wrong. I think it helps me grow as a writer and a person.

Man goeth to his long home and the mourners go about the streets.

You need an immense amount of luck and perseverance to even be on the playing field for success on a grand scale.

True piety hath in it nothing weak, nothing sad, nothing constrained. It enlarges the heart; it is simple, free, and attractive.

Worry not so much about other peoples morals but more about your own.

I thought I'd do something nice for the band... I'll hang myself.

In times of affliction we commonly meet with the sweetest experiences of the love of God.

[On the metaphysical:] ... I knew in some marvelous way I had touched the hem of the unknown. And being me, I wanted to lift that hemline a little bit more.

I'm the woman who used to think that middle-age spread was a cocktail dip.