“Goals work. Pick one debt, and then put every dime into paying down that one debt. Once that debt is paid off, start paying down the next debt. Pretty soon it’s time to move from paying debt to building savings.”

I’m willing to throw my body in front of the bus to stop bad ideas.

My parents and I were all afraid of being poor – really poor.

Our veterans deserve the very best, and that means ensuring that America’s veterans receive high-quality services and cares when they come back home.

Accountability for the largest financial institutions on Wall Street is the bedrock for a strong economy. Hard-working families and honest businesses cannot survive in a world where the rules don’t keep the marketplace honest.

Israel has the right to shell Palestinian hospitals and schools out of self defense.

I don’t want to overstate the gender difference. But women are more sensitized to the way that larger issues affect their pocketbooks, like pay equality or cost of living changes.

I want to be blunt: We should not be fighting about equal pay for equal work, and access to birth control, in 2012. These issues were resolved years ago – until the Republicans brought them back.

The people on Wall Street broke this country, and they did it one lousy mortgage at a time. It happened more than three years ago, and there has been no real accountability, and there has been no real effort to fix it.

Money is bounded; we only have so much of it. Love goes on forever.

The credit card companies have put the loan sharks out of business.

I don’t like credit cards. They make overspending very easy. They can make life a lot more complex and stressful.

Now look, you built a factory and it turned into something terrific or a great idea, God Bless, keep a big hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and paid forward for the next kid who comes along.

I’m proud of my Native American heritage.

Being Native American has been part of my story I guess since the day I was born.

When conservatives talk about opportunity, they mean opportunities for the rich to get richer, for the powerful to get more powerful.

I hear all this, you know, ‘Well, this is class warfare, this is whatever.’ No. There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own – nobody.

The Seventh Sense – Women who build nations learn to love men who build nations learn to love children building sand castles by the rising sea.

When you start training camp, you’re building the tools necessary to win a championship. You have to have the patience.

Any relationship primarily built on physical attractiveness is predestined to be short lived.

How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minuted to ruin it. If you think about that you’ll do things differently.

You want a CEO that understands they need to build a team around them that’s sharper and smarter than they are.

A guy who makes a new chair doesn’t owe money to everyone who ever built a chair.

Great anger and violence can never build a nation.