My reputation is too important to put it aside for purposes of some friendship. We have a job to do.

The current administration has made the decision to cut dollars going for community development block grants, for various incentives to bring cities back.

I raise this objection to debate the process, and protect the integrity of the true will of the people.

I would not say that George Bush doesn't care about people at all. I think that his loyalties are to the upper class.

I have always examined closely the motives of any group for which I am asked to raise money.

Western democracies exalt the ideal of social equality, but our economic system arguably emerged from 16th-century Calvinism, a religion whose members believed that God showed favor by bestowing wealth and other forms of success on what they called 'the chosen.'

We have to make it easier to afford to go into education in the first place, so you don't leave with crippling debt that you never have a chance to pay back because you're not making enough money.

Germany is the biggest economy of Europe and we need Germany on board for the economic reforms of Europe, including, of course, the deepening of the internal market, resisting protectionism, and supporting further economic policy coordination.