Bush has never sent over a balanced budget.

Without Social Security, poverty rates for African American seniors would more than double.

The Americans are optimistic by their nature. And they are hopeful.

There's not an appropriations bill in the last 10 years that the-that Democrats passed in the Congress. We haven't spent any money of your taxes in the last decade.

The President's proposed privatization plan would jeopardize that security by cutting guaranteed benefits for future retirees and endangering the benefits of current retirees, people with disabilities, and children who have lost a parent.

I will work with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to preserve the Social Security promise that provides secure retirement benefits for all, especially those who are most at risk such as widows, orphans, and people with disabilities when the need arises.

Bush has never sent over a balanced budget.

Democracy derailed is democracy denied.

Now, so, if you want to blame someone for wasteful spending, the Republicans are in the majority.

Because when we think about the real facts: 44 million Americans without health insurance, millions without jobs, a 50-year high on mortgage foreclosures, an historic high the third year in a row on personal bankruptcies.

But the point you need to know is that no president at war cut taxes $1.5 trillion, like Bush did.

Now we are raising the debt limit 3 times, up to $8 trillion, so that our children and our grandchildren will have to pay for the cost of our expenditures.

While Social Security faces some long-term challenges, the system is not in crisis.

When Bill Clinton was in town, he sent over a balanced budget.

The education cuts in the President's budget are both irresponsible and morally unjustifiable.

African American children can't be educationally disadvantaged for 12 years and then experience a miracle cure when it comes time for admission into college.

But if they want to really think about the fiscal future of this country, then think about how we have moved from hundreds of billions of surpluses to hundreds of billions of deficits.

Currently, more than 4.7 million African Americans receive Social Security benefits, and nearly 8 million people with disabilities depend on Social Security for their daily sustenance.

The threat of terrorism is not stronger than the will of the American people.

I don't know what this definition of affirmative action is for some.

The Republican Party is in charge. They've been charge of the Congress and spending for 10 years.

There are no problems that exist in the District that have been solved elsewhere in the country. Whatever problems exist in this city exist other places.

This program that the Republican majority has taken us toward as a country is leading us to fiscal bankruptcy.

We have major fiscal problems on our hand.

Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things.

Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy.

If I said I was going to make a newsletter that made $2-$3 million a year, no one would question me. If I say, 'It's a blog,' everyone questions me.

A rolling stone gathers no moss, but it gains a certain polish.

I've also learned to no longer feel guilty if I'm invited out and don't want to go. If I start to say to myself, 'What's wrong with you that you're staying in five nights in a row to watch 'Forensic Files' instead of going out with your friends' I remind myself that it's what I need to do for myself at that point.

The truth is always less interesting than the fiction.

Take away grievances from some people and you remove their reasons for living most of us are nourished by hope but a considerable minority get psychic nutrition from their resentments and would waste away purposelessly without them.

I am just an apprentice.

When the Israeli leaders launched their expansionist war in June 1967 they never envisaged that 40 years later they would still be haunted by the consequences.

I think that was one of the things that happened, especially in Ireland, that you left in order to improve yourself, and you couldn't write home and tell people, 'Look, I'm really lonely,' because you'd realize how much those letters were going to matter, that you needed to put good news or uplifting news into them.

I would hate to be 65 and think, 'What if I had tried to be an actor?'

I grew up in a house where nobody had to tell me to go to school every day and do my homework.

I always considered, with every shoot, I was on trial; every time I pick up my camera and start out on the relationship, I am at degree zero. There is no coasting.

Oil is like a wild animal. Whoever captures it has it.

Often, we ignore the fact that our spiritual condition and psychological state of mind are highly affected by what is happening to us physically.

What is classical music if not the epitome of sensuality passion and understated erotica that popular music even with all of its energy and life cannot even begin to touch

There is so much temptation to hold on to my career even more now. To try to micromanage and dictate every little aspect. But that's not how I want to do things anymore. I'm thinking about how can I trust God more. How can I surrender more? How can I bring him more glory? It's a fight. But it's one I'm going to keep fighting.

In the wilderness, we experience the faithfulness of God.

I don't believe in an outside agent that creates the world, then walks away. But I feel very strongly there is an intelligence at work in every flower, in every blade of grass, in every cell of my body. And it is that intelligence that, I wouldn't say created the universe. It is creating the universe. It's an ongoing process.

New York felt to me like what America should be - a representation of the world in this small pocket.

I think if you just look at life in a positive way, positive things will happen.

The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.

I am, it is safe to say, not a practical man. The few attempts I've made to hammer in a nail have ended in broken thumbs, burst pipes, and water spraying everywhere with the house on fire.

I want to know what it is to build the foundation of the friendship for real, to have my best friend and not because we're just intimate, but because we're mentally intimate. So I'm waiting for that person to come into my life.