There isn't anyone who can't serve ... nobody who can't help somebody else.

It is our generation's task, then, to reignite the true engine of America's economic growth - a rising, thriving middle class.

The more freely information flows, the stronger the society becomes, because then citizens of countries around the world can hold their own governments accountable. They can begin to think for themselves.

Certainly I've appreciated Angela Merkel as a partner.

The amount of information, the amount of incoming that any administration has to deal with today and respond to much more rapidly than ever before, that makes it different.

The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something.

My hope is that we can get a Republican-Democratic agreement on how we strengthen Social Security as well as looking at some of these other major expenditures that we have that we've got to deal with to make sure that we're not just leaving you guys with a mountain of debt.