The role of citizen in our democracy does not end with your vote.

Nature is actually resilient, if we take care to just stop actively destroying it.

I bowled a 129... It was like the Special Olympics or something!

I don't want to make decisions about what I'm eating or wearing. Because I have too many other decisions to make.

This pleased Onyango, for to him knowledge was the source of all the white man's power, and he wanted to make sure that his son was as educated as any white man.

It is time to leave behind the divisive battles of the past. It is time to move forward as one nation.

It's harder to end a war than begin one. Indeed, everything that American troops have done in Iraq -- all the fighting and all the dying, the bleeding and the building, and the training and the partnering -- all of it has led to this moment of success. Now, Iraq is not a perfect place. It has many challenges ahead. But we're leaving behind a sovereign, stable and self-reliant Iraq, with a representative government that was elected by its people. We're building a new partnership between our nations.