"Where are the jobs going to come from?Small business, manufacturing and clean energy. Where's the money to finance them? The banks and the corporations in America today have lots of money that they can invest right now."

"The new rage is to say that the government is the cause of all our problems, and if only we had no government, we'd have no problems. I can tell you, that contradicts evidence, history, and common sense."

"The new rage is to say that the government is the cause of all our problems, and if only we had no government, we'd have no problems. I can tell you, that contradicts evidence, history, and common sense."

"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."

"It is a quiet truth that creativity is seeing what everyone has seen, but thinking what no one else thought."

"It is a quiet truth that the canvas of imagination has no boundaries except those imposed by fear."

"The silent observer understands that every ending is merely a new beginning in disguise."

"Ethics is not a doctrine written in marble, but a daily standard lived in conscience. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows."