While we may not live to see the full realization of our ambition, we will have the satisfaction of knowing that the world we leave to our children will be better off for what we did.

A good GI bill would increase the recruit pool.

It's a generational project just to get America to live up fully to its ideals and to have the kind of society where everybody has a shot, and every kid is getting a good education, and people are getting living wages, and they have decent retirement.

America leads - not with bluster, but with persistent, steady resolve.

I think that there's gonna be a lot of work to do in order to consolidate the transformations that I was interested in.

Few challenges facing America and the world are more urgent than combating climate change. The science is beyond dispute and the facts are clear.

I believe that the U.S. can and should be a global leader in the development of alternative energy sources.