The outlook for the Federal budget is bleak.

We do not see the sort of fundamental changes that would be necessary to reduce the trajectory of federal health spending by a significant amount and, on the contrary, the legislation significantly expands the federal responsibility for health care costs.

The outlook for the Federal budget is bleak.

Yes. We do think that the stimulus package is raising GDP and raising employment relative to what would have happened otherwise.

Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.

All of my friends are really good dancers, which was initially why I never danced - we'd go out, and they would kill it, and I'd be like, 'Yeah, I'm just gonna sit at the bar.'

Some people think electronic music is cold, but I think that has more to do with the people listening than the actual music itself.

I know about technology, about research, scientific applications, culture, civilization, differences between nations of the world, the nature of history.

I try to push and find something awkward. The gems to me are truly awkward situations, and you have to have somebody who's willing to fail because those can't be conceived. They never play if they're thought about and discussed too much. You have to create them right at the moment and look for something honest.

I don't think I'll ever fully get over losing the city council seat. I don't know how that happened. But it was less than 1 percent out of 50,000 votes. I'd put in six or seven years into changing L.A.

Manufacturing and other unskilled professions that were union jobs, that allowed people to live a middle-class life, are disappearing both because unions are disappearing and because of the global nature of the economy.

I like to play what I call a-motional golf. Emotion doesn't grab me that much.

Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

At Intuit, we've introduced concepts like unstructured time to enable individuals and small teams to be entrepreneurial and identify new processes or product ideas.

I'm kind of insane when it comes to music, a little obsessed.

And it is very moving because one has to see the site not as just another site of development but it is a very special site. It is a site that souls and hearts of all Americans.

The search for the truth is the most important work in the whole world, and the most dangerous.

I always wanted to be an actor. It sort of prevented that whole - I never had any of that kind of angsty period old and doing musicals at camp and community theater and plays at school; it was just always what I most enjoyed and always what I intended to pursue.

We acquire friends and enemies,but our sisters come with the territory.

We see the world through the lens of all our experiences; that is a fundamental part of the human condition.

The arts and humanities are vastly more important in troubled times.

Fake people will hang around as long as you let them. So dont. Cut back on their time and spend it with your real friends

I believe your atmosphere and your surroundings create a mind state for you.

It's always been difficult to make a good record. To be perfectly honest with you, it's really about the person that's pushing the buttons. No matter what type of equipment you have, you still have to have a certain talent to be able to make a good record.

Interethnic and spiritual accord is our strategic resource, the basis for progress of our society and state.

I think what you're seeing is a profound recognition on the part of the American people that gays and lesbians and transgender persons are our brothers, our sisters, our children, our cousins, our friends, our co-workers, and that they've got to be treated like every other American. And I think that principle will win out.

I think that technologies are morally neutral until we apply them. It's only when we use them for good or for evil that they become good or evil.

The major driver of economics is the equilibrium approach, which has taken various forms over the years. General equilibrium is the statement that all the different parts of the economy influence each other, even if it's remote, like mortgage-backed securities and their demands on automobiles.