I came to the conclusion months ago, and I said it to members of Congress, that the only way people are going to fully appreciate what this reform is if we pass it and implement it and it becomes not a caricature but a reality, and I still believe that. So I think it will be easier to sell it moving forward than it was to this point.

People understand we're on the doorstep of doing something really historic that will help the American people and strengthen our country for the long run.

But you say, does it represent change? The change is that we are fighting an insurance industry that has killed health reform for generations. They're spending tens of millions of dollars right now to defeat this bill, and we're on the doorstep of winning a great victory for the American people.

The fact is if we do our job right, if we keep worrying not about polls but about the jobs of the American people, about their health care, about their ability to educate their kids, stay in their homes and own their homes, send their kids to college, the basic pillars of a middle-class life, if we keep worrying about the future and building a stronger future for this country, these things will take care of themselves.

This marketplace where people can buy insurance who don't have it today - a competitive marketplace: That's an idea that both sides embrace.

My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.

Rocco paid me 35 bucks a week at Murray's Inn in South Jersey. People started asking Rocco to have me sing.

The key to truly rebuilding our central city on a vital and sustainable foundation is people.

People would be surprised to know how much I learned about prayer from playing poker.

Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think.

We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate as personalities are the ones who lose that thread.

My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.

There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.

I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.

To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.