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

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.

Later, after flying in the Navy for four or five years, spending some time on an aircraft carrier, I applied to and was accepted in a program where I went to graduate school first and then to the Naval Test Pilots School.

What good has impatience ever brought? It has only served as the mother of mistakes and the father of irritation.

But when I felt like I had something to prove? Then I got up early every morning and worked all day long. I didn't know if I had any more talent than anyone else directing, but I knew I could work hard at it, and so I did.

Some Western demographers have posited, due to the female shortage created by the one-child policy, that China will be forced to field a vast force - as in tens of millions strong - of wifeless men who'll gladly wage wars around the planet to burn off all those unrequited hormones.

A reporter from 'The Times' wanted to arm-wrestle, and as I recall, he kept challenging me. So we went at it, and there was a pop. His arm broke. Very strange. He went into a kind of swoon.

I can change a light fixture, and I can do certain things. But I'm really bad in terms of construction. I can't do any of it on my own.

I think a lot of writers, male and female, write as if their parents were killed in a car accident when they were 2, and they have no one to hold accountable. And unfortunately, I don't have that. I have parents who I care about what they think.

It was not till toward the end of the thirteenth century that the prose romances began to appear.

My age has so little to do with my image of myself because at a certain point, the number just didn't fit how I felt. It has become irrelevant to me. I just don't feel like that number is representative of my spirit, of my energy or my anything!

I do think anger is so difficult for women. Girls think it undermines their femininity; it's not very ladylike.

I always do whatever is best for the character.

No one trusts a model except the man who wrote it; everyone trusts an observation, except the man who made it.

The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.

For Christmas I do gift bags for my friends and the cast, and I put 'treat yo self' key chains in there. And people send me pictures of 'treat yo self' all the time.

I like candles. It helps cover up for the fact that I have four male roommates.

My novels are certainly more exciting than my own life.

In my heart, I'm an Alabaman who went up north to work.

Well, I think, I certainly used backward music in Sea of Monsters. I can't remember in the Sea of Time. I would tend to do that all the time, you know? I tended to do all sorts of weird things. Just to get effects.

Hunger is insolent, and will be fed.

I don't have technique because I never learnt any.

I have a big gay and lesbian following and they've been very loyal and kind to me.

We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

America's relations with complex Middle Eastern states such as Egypt are often difficult.

I'll read a book every now and then, but unlike most of my friends I don't always have one on the go.