In the new economy, information, education, and motivation are everything.

Being President is a little like being the grounds-keeper at a cemetery: there's plenty of people below you but no one's listening.

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.

India.. a perfectly wonderful country, may have been motivated by a lack of self-esteem.

When some Republican governors asked to try new ways to put people on welfare back to work, the Obama Administration said they would only do it if they had a credible plan to increase employment by 20%. You hear that? More work. So the claim that President Obama weakened welfare reform's work requirement is just not true.

Noting his mother's visit to Las Vegas the weekend before she died. She got to go to heaven four days early.

That all depends on what "is" is.