"Let's just do what is right for the American people. And those of us who are involved in politics and government know that our responsibility is to the American people, that we have a responsibility to find our common ground, to seek it and to find it."

"If I cry, it's about the personal loss of a friend or something like that. But when it comes to politics - no, I don't cry."

"Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance."

"In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply."

"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."

"We were in a great, seething moment in the 1970s. There was a new Labour government and everything seemed full of hope... But, as we got older and we saw how much women's behaviour contributed to what was wrong, we stopped being able to see ourselves purely as."

"It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so."

"To be prepared for War is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace."