I always tell my staff, "Better is good." I'll take better every time, because better is hard.

In the wealthiest nation on Earth – no illness or accident should lead to any family’s financial ruin.

What do you think a stimulus is? It’s spending - that's the whole point! Seriously.

This kind of game in which anybody who I know, regardless of how flimsy the relationship is, that somehow their ideas could be attributed to me, I think the American people are smarter than that. They're not going to suggest somehow that that is reflective of my views, because it obviously isn't.

No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise.

Basically, I am a night owl. My wife is an early bird, so she goes to bed around 9:30, and my kids are in bed about 8. So, if I am home, I will usually start writing about 9:30 and go till about 12:30 or 1:30, depending on what my energy level is.

Global warming is not just the greatest environmental challenge facing our planet - it is one of our greatest challenges of any kind.