When you're in office, there are tangible moments when you can see tangible successes.

Never write when you can talk. Never talk when you can nod. And never put anything in an e-mail.

I don't care about motivation. I care about credibility.

Global warming threatens our health, our economy, our natural resources, and our children's future. It is clear we must act.

Yes, people pull the trigger - but guns are the instrument of death. Gun control is necessary, and delay means more death and horror.

Delay is the enemy of progress.

Shareholders have the right and obligation to set the parameters of corporate behavior within which management pursues profit.

I believe in an evolving Constitution. A flexible Constitution leaves room for us to consider not merely how the world once was, but how it ought to be.

Sometimes in politics, you think you've seen it all. Turns out I was wrong.

President Obama is doing the right thing by offering young immigrants, most often in this country through no action of their own, a chance to live and work openly, free from the fear of deportation.

One of the biggest lies in capitalism is that companies like competition. They don't. Nobody likes competition.

True love is not practical. True love doesn’t always follow the rules. When you are truly in love, you can lose your mind over it.

He looked like some plant bleached by darkness.

I think we need leadership that helps us remember that part of what we are about is caring about more than the person right next to us, but the folks across the way.

When I go to a bar, I don't go looking for a girl who knows the capital of Maine.

When I was younger I was always big; I was a fat boy at school. I had an early growth spurt, and when I went to secondary school I was tall enough to be a policeman.

Whatever you put your attention on becomes energized. Whatever you take your attention away from dwindles

Rule of thumb: if you think something is clever and sophisticated beware-it is probably self-indulgence.

I'm the least sexy person in real life.

But man is so addicted to systems and to abstract conclusions that he is prepared deliberately to distort the truth, to close his eyes and ears, but justify his logic at all cost.

Without contraries there is no progression.