I pledge to you today that as president, in my first budget, I will introduce the largest increase in special education ever.

As long as the government's actions are secret, it cannot be held accountable. A government for the people and by the people should be transparent to the people.

When energy prices go up, the difficulty of projecting demand also goes up - uncertainty goes up.

ManBearPig, half man, half bear, half pig

I've been dreaming of this moment since I was a kid growing up in Tennessee: that one day, I'd have the chance to come here to Madison Square Garden and be the warm-up act for Elvis.

...the debate among the scientists if over. There is no more debate. We face a planetary emergency. There is no more scientific debate among serious people who've looked at the science...Well, I guess in some quarters, there's still a debate over whether the moon landing was staged in a movie lot in Arizona, or whether the Earth is flat instead of round.

I doubt nuclear power will play a much larger role than it does now.