I made a big mistake. It is indefensible and I am sorry.

Sometimes when people are under stress, they hate to think, and it's the time when they most need to think.

If you look at what's happened to the stock market, if you look at what's happened to housing values, if you look at what's happened to bank loan portfolios because the value of their other assets that they've already issued loans against were going down, there was a pretty good argument for trying to pass something at about this level of investment with the divisions as they were - unemployment, food stamps, and tax cuts, aid to education and healthcare, and job creation.

From the small clubs of the Harlem Renaissance where he began playing saxophone to world tours for the biggest of the big bands, Benny Carter redefined American jazz. From the start, his fellow musicians said the way he played the sax was amazing. They say that about me, too. (Laughter.) But I don't think they mean it in quite the same way.

We need to help younger people recognize their own capacity to do good, and help them discover the rewards of generosity.

When people are feeling insecure, they'd rather have someone who is strong and wrong rather than somebody who is weak and right.

Success is not the measure of a man but a triumph over those who choose to hold him back.