"We all know that Social Security is one of this country's greatest success stories in the 20th century."

"Things happen in American politics in the political center. If the President will meet us in the center, there are things we can accomplish."

"Syria and Iran have always had a pretty tight relationship, and it looks to me like they just cooked up a press release to put out to sort of restate the obvious. They're both problem countries we know that. And this doesn't change anything."

"We hear the stories every day now: the father who puts on a suit every morning and leaves the house so his daughter doesn't know he lost his job, the recent college grad facing up to the painful reality that the only door that's open to her after four years of study and a pile of debt is her parents'. These are the faces of the Obama economy."

"The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account."

"Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future, too, like something out of Fritz Lang's feeble imagination."

"The only limit to human potential is a single spark of imagination can ignite the world."

"Nature teaches us a valuable lesson: a single spark of imagination can ignite the world."