Whenever I meet people for the first time, I assume that they have a great story to tell and that it's my job to find it.
Every president since George Washington has taken executive privilege seriously. Every Republican president has.
I think there's no higher calling in terms of a career than public service, which is a chance to make a difference in people's lives and improve the world.
The most critical thing in a negotiation is to get inside your opponent's head and figure out what he really wants.
Raising the debt limit on some levels is a ministerial act. It doesn't involve any new spending.
The challenge for any government is how do you do two things at the same time. How do you put money forward for things like the payroll tax holiday, for things like getting a jump-start on infrastructure, for building schools, and make the decisions for long-term deficit reduction.
The issue of providing women all forms of preventative health care has been and remains very important. The, the importance of protecting religious liberties in this country has been important to the president and will always be.
I think what it was with the war photography was the concerned eye, the desire to document these situations to show the world the horrors of war. It inspired me to document prostitution; inspired me to document homelessness in America. We are the richest country in the world, yet we have people suffering, so it helped me to look at things in that manner.
Why wilt thou be so sottish, such an enemy to thyself, as to prefer puddle-water, and that poisoned too and stolen, before pure living waters out of thy own well?
No object is stuck with its name so irrevocably that one cannot find another which suits it better.
The bed must be a beautiful place, not only because you make love there but because you dream there as well.