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"In today's competitive economy, to stand still is to die."
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"Bling" is not an indication of riches. It is a product of value-based spending, to enrich the pockets of those outside of ones sphere of influence...the haves' bleeding the have-nots'."

"So far, therefore, as the science of exchange relates to the advantage of one of the exchanging persons only, it is founded on the ignorance or incapacity of the opposite person. . . . It is therefore a science founded on nescience. . . . This science, alone of sciences, must, by all available means, promulgate and prolong its opposite nescience. . . . It is therefore peculiarly and alone science of darkness."

"We aren't leveraging this great economic engine, the strongest economy in the world. And yet we have this totally weak response. We import $500 billion a year more in products than we export."

"An economy growing at 7 percent per year, can and must find the resources to improve the lives of its millions of poor."

"You can't tax business. Business doesn't pay taxes. It collects taxes."

"This unchecked spending is growing faster than our economy, faster than inflation, and far beyond our means to sustain it."
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"Ideological warriors whether from the Left or the Right are bad news for the bench. They tend to make law, not interpret law. And that's not what any of us should want from our judges."

"So I want my kids to go to public schools because I think it's a better education overall."

"Well, the tough thing for them is that the Republican primary is pretty far over to the right, just as the Democratic primary is further over to the left than the average voter in each party."

"Anyone who thinks they have a monopoly on truth, and there is only one way to see the world, always gets us into trouble."

"If we are going to stay a great power and I hope and pray we will we need the truth. We need to know what is going right and we need to know what is going wrong. There is no greater time than now."

"We need to make sure middle-class people are able to pay the bills. We need to make sure that poor people don't starve. Those are values, too."

"Voters did say 'repeal health care,' they did say 'reduce the size of government.' But not a single one of them from the tea party or anywhere said 'give tax breaks to the wealthiest.'"

"You know, we have three branches of government. We have a House. We have a Senate. We have a President."
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