A fundamental American question is, 'What's the big idea?'
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A competition of the best ideas - that should be what Congress is about.
Big ideas we tend to like are the ones that seem impossible or crazy.
I think I have a sense right in the beginning of how big an idea it is and how much room it needs, and, almost more importantly, how long it would sustain anybody's interest.
Every proposal I'm making, every idea I'm advancing has a single, central purpose: to revive a failing economy and give working Americans the help and security they need.
A real idea keeps changing and appears in many places.
I'm not saying my idea is the one and only idea. We should have other ideas, but the president has not laid down a specific plan as to how he's going to get us to solvency. I do that.
It is money, money, money! Not ideas, not principles, but money that reigns supreme in American politics.
A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission.
We don't need a new idea; the idea is called America, and it still works.
I'm a great believer in our ability to come up with the ideas necessary to solve the big questions. I have less confidence that we'll be able to find a consensus about which ones are right without experiment.