President Obama has offered a plan with 4 trillion dollars in debt reduction over a decade, with two and a half dollars of spending reductions for every one dollar of revenue increases, and tight controls on future spending. It's the kind of balanced approach proposed by the bipartisan Simpson-Bowles commission.

Putin wants to reestablish Russian greatness, not as the Cold War, but in 19th century empire terms.

A lot of wonderful people love their country and hate the military.

I might not be the same, but that's not important/No freedom till we're equal, damn right I support it

The future is not an inheritance, it is an opportunity and an obligation.

Our democracy must be not only the envy of the world but the engine of our own renewal. There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.

I want a man who had the good sense to marry Michelle Obama.