The most important thing for me is having a relationship with God. To know that the owner the creator of the universe loves you sent His Son to die for your sins that's very empowering. Knowing Him and knowing that He loves me gives me encouragement and confidence to move forward.

There was at time in my life where all I wanted was a relationship and I thought that was the most important thing.

It's important to take time for your spouse and nurture the relationship.

Given the daunting challenges that we face it's important that president elect Obama is prepared to really take power and begin to rule day one.

The thing is if you control the Senate meetings you control the gavel. And the gavel is a very important instrument... an instrument of power. An instrument that establishes the agenda.

There are two ways of attaining an important end force and perseverance the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.

We believe that it is very important that we have hopefully averted what would have been the most substantial headwind of all which is a default for the first time in our history and that that will contribute to a more positive environment that we hope will allow for greater growth and job creation.

We found out tonight how important and how crucial momentum swings can be. I thought we were playing very well. We were doing a lot of positive things but then we lost the puck two times in our zone and things swung their way. You can't afford to give teams momentum.

The most important thing is to stay positive.

It's an important thing to have a relationship with the director and have it be a positive one.