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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.
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The pressure of the election campaign has a wonderful way of revealing your strengths and weaknesses.
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Technology really has turned out to be a wonderful thing. . . . So Americans really are tuning in in positive ways on the Internet.
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The Bible is the authoritative Word of God and contains all truth.
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I still believe in a place called Hope.
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Forget what you may have heard about a digital divide or worries that the world is splintering into 'info haves' and 'info have-nots.' The fact is, technology fosters equality, and it's often the relatively cheap and mundane devices that do the most good.
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I mean, if President Reagan could be an actor and become a President, if Michael Douglas is your next choice, maybe I could become an actor. And I've got a good pension; I can work cheap, which is unusual around here.
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I don't believe you can find any evidence of the fact that I have changed government policy solely because of a contribution.
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It is dangerously destabilizing to have half the world on the cutting edge of technology while the other half struggles on the bare edge of survival.
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Today's possibilities are not tomorrows guarantees.
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Well, first of all, I think that a lot of the voters who are voting for the tea party candidates have really good impulses. That is, they believe that for years and years and years, the people with wealth and power or government power have done well and ordinary people have not. That's true.
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Let us never forget the greatest untapped market for American enterprise is right here in America, in the inner cities, in the rural areas.
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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.
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NASA even sent Chuck Berry's music on a space probe searching for intelligent life in outer space. Well, now, if they're out there, they're duck walking...
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I challenge every business person in America who has ever complained about the failure of the welfare system to try to hire somebody off welfare. And try hard.
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In our efforts to battle terrorism and cyber attacks and biological weapons, all of us must be extremely aggressive. We must protect our people from danger and keep America safe and free.
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Sarah, there's a government inside the government, and I don't control it.
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The era of big government is over, but the era of big challenge is not. We need an era of big citizenship. There are many important people at this summit, but the most important title is 'citizen.' This is our republic. Let us keep it!
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...Nixon's subversion of the consititution consisted of: One presidental lie; one invocation of presidental privilege, and zero criminal offences.
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A world without walls is the only sustainable world. . . . If the world is dominated by people who believe that their races, their religions, their ethnic differences are the most important factors, then a huge number of people will perish in this century.
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I've gained first hand knowledge of the challenges faced by people with disabilities. It's made me understand that those of us who have full use of our physical faculties owe an enormous amount of respect and sensitivity to people who don't.
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Over the past 7 years, we've tried to modernize the economy, and today what we're doing is modernizing the financial services industry, tearing down these antiquated walls, and granting banks significant new authority.
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Sharing in God's blessings is at the heart of Thanksgiving and at the core of the American spirit.
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A preemptive action today, however well-justified, may come back with unwelcome consequences in the future. And because... I've done this. I've ordered these kinds of actions - I don't care how precise your bombs and your weapons are, when you set them off, innocent people will die.