But if you – if what – the reports are true, what they’re saying is, is that as a consequence of us getting 30 million additional people health care, at the margins that’s going to increase our costs, we knew that.

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

Hell isn’t merely paved with good intentions; it’s walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.

I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.

Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

‚Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.

I believe that of all the things I have done, exciting though many of them have been, there’s no doubt in my mind that the most worthwhile have been the establishing of schools and hospitals, and the rebuilding of monasteries in the mountains.

Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.

In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.

I don’t think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times.

Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.

Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

I’m not concerned about all hell breaking loose, but that a PART of hell will break loose… it’ll be much harder to detect.

It’s clearly a budget. It’s got a lot of numbers in it.

The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

Getting out of the hospital is a lot like resigning from a book club. You’re not out of it until the computer says you’re out of it.

Never envy a man his lady. Behind it all lays a living hell.

They certainly give very strange names to diseases.

Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?

So while I will never minimize the costs involved in military action, I am convinced that a failure to act in Libya would have carried a far greater price for America.

Medicines are only fit for old people.

It’s OK for China to invent cancer drugs that cure patients in the United States. We want them to catch up. But as the leader, we want to keep setting a very, very high standard. We don’t want them to catch up because we’re slowing down or, even worse, going into reverse.

Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.

It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.

We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.

After a century of trying, we declared that healthcare in America is not a privilege for a few, it is a right for everybody. After decades of talk, we finally began to wean ourselves off foreign oil. We doubled our production of clean energy. We brought more of our troops home to their families, and we delivered justice to Osama bin Laden.

Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

There are as many opinions as there are experts.

Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.

When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.

If you’re in business or politics, you need to have an intense understanding of what’s going on around you.

The ‚free-floating intellectual‘ may occupy himself with problems because of their inherent interest and importance, perhaps to little effect.

It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

By that sin fell the angels.

The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.

Widespread use of antibiotics promotes the spread of antibiotic resistance. Smart use of antibiotics is the key to controlling its spread.

People are unaware of what is going on. When I talk to people, they know the basics, they know the planet is warming because of greenhouse gases… but they don’t know the actual consequence of that.

Why do Jewish divorces cost so much? They’re worth it.

History is more or less bunk.

Charity creates a multitude of sins.

Everybody will make mistakes, and for some that mistake will rise to the level of being a crime.

Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved.

Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.

‚I am‘ is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that ‚I do‘ is the longest sentence?

The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.

Michelle and I don’t want anyone telling us who our family’s doctor should be – and no one should decide that for you either. Under our proposals, if you like your doctor, you keep your doctor. If you like your current insurance, you keep that insurance. Period, end of story.

History should be written as philosophy.

No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard.

The Cuban model doesn’t even work for us anymore.

This administration is going to be cussed and discussed for years to come.

We are punished by our sins, not for them.

Every action has a consequence. It may be good for strengthening. And I have no doubt that lifting a lot of weights can get you stronger. I just don’t know if lifting stronger weights can keep you healthy, or it can keep you doing your job better, especially for a pro athlete.

Smooth functioning of social life has always depended on the recognition of certain basic limits to behavior. We cannot simply say or do anything we wish, or offend people, without paying consequences – isolation, ostracism, etc.

One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.

So long as I’m Commander-in-Chief, we will sustain the strongest military the world has ever known. When you take off the uniform, we will serve you as well as you’ve served us – because no one who fights for this country should have to fight for a job, or a roof over their head, or the care that they need when they come home.

What charitable 1 percenters can’t do is assume responsibility – America’s national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts.

It means, people who are in high and responsible positions, if they go against righteousness, righteousness itself will get transformed into a destroyer.

Experts often possess more data than judgment.