I feel good because I believe I have made progress in rebuilding the people's trust in their government.

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.

Nobody wants to put the creditworthiness of the United States in jeopardy. Nobody wants to see the United States default. So we've got to seize this moment, and we have to seize it soon.

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.