The risk is that as we come out of this recession, we'll have so much debt to finance, we'll either have to have inflation or very high interest rates to continue to borrow the money, or both. That's a risk.

Everybody counts, everybody deserves a chance, everybody has a responsible role to play and we all do better when we work together.

Literacy is not a luxury, it is a right and a responsibility.

It depends upon what the meaning of the word 'is' is.

I mean, you know, this idea that somebody we disagree with on economic or social policy or something we have to turn into some kind of ogre or demon, I think, is a mistake. I mean, it's like telling the American people or half the American people that don't agree with you they're all fools. That's just not true.

I hate that man Obama more than any man I've ever met, more than any man who ever lived.

The Reagan-Bush years have exalted private gain over public obligation, special interests over the common good, wealth and fame over work and family. The 1980s ushered in a Gilded Age of greed and selfishness, of irresponsibility and excess, and of neglect.