It's time to look beyond the budget ax to assure access to health care for all. It's time to look for bipartisan solutions to the problems we can tackle today, and to work together for tomorrow - building a health care system that works for all Americans.

No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.

Paulo Coelho

Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall.

Jodi Picoult

The worst part about celebrating another birthday is the shock that you're only as well as you are.

Anne Lamott

It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.

William Cobbett

Is human nature basically good or evil? No economist can embark upon his profession without considering this question, and yet they all seem to. And they all seem to think human nature is basically good, or they wouldn't be surprised by the effects of deregulation.

Jane Smiley

Any solution to a problem changes the problem.

R. W. Johnson

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Barack Obama

I don't have any fear of intimacy, but rather thrive on it, which is rare in a public person.

Jack Nicholson

I think if actors don't think of themselves as funny in real life they think they can't do comedy.

Ben Barnes

Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.

Richard M. Nixon

I'm sorry, but I can't make a movie with the blonde from 'ER' who is starring in every single bad romantic comedy.

Matthew Fox

The existing world economic order constitutes a system of plundering and exploitation like no other in history.

Fidel Castro