President Kennedy was a voracious reader and was forever coming up with fascinating bits of information.

The day I became press secretary to the President of the United States, I was in an entirely different world from the one I'd been in the day before.

American people simply will not countenance being lied to by their own President.

To outlive one's child is a terrible thing, but to do so because your child has taken his or her life is horrible.

Only together do Europe and the U.S. stand a chance of keeping liberal democracy as the central doctrine for organizing world affairs.

Some of my colleagues are unwilling to vote for any Dodd-Frank reforms, partly out of the political fear that any reforms will be seen as reducing regulations on the financial sector.

While we use American power to fight hard for democracy against extremism on both left and right, our critics seem suspicious of any assertion of United States power or influence against any government or group that claims to be on the left.

Chronic deficits drastically reduce government's ability to make those infrastructure investments that business needs to grow and create jobs.