Our new technologies, combined with our numbers, have made us, collectively, a force of nature

My plan to put Social Security in an ironclad lockbox has gotten a lot of attention recently, and I'm glad about that. But I'm afraid that it's overshadowing some vitally important proposals. For instance, I'll put Medicaid in a walk-in closet. I'll put the Community Reinvestment Act in a secured gym locker. I'll put NASA funding in a hermetically sealed Ziploc bag.

As president, I will bring all the parties and stakeholders together. I am going to come up with a solution that respects the environment and does not cause an upheaval in the economy.

Pollution should never be the price of prosperity.

George Orwell once wrote that a false belief sooner or later collides with physical reality, usually on a battlefield.

We know that he has stored secret supplies of biological and chemical weapons throughout his country.

In a time of social fragmentation, vulgarity becomes a way of life. To be shocking becomes more important - and often more profitable - than to be civil or creative or truly original.