I can be much more sarcastic and, I think, sometimes withering in my assessments of things than I allow to show in my public life.

I'm personally very grateful to my many friends in the Greek-American community, sons and daughters of Greece who have found success in every walk of American life.

What we may think is funny or cute may end up being powerfully hurtful.

And I agree that the Democratic legislators in Massachusetts might have given some advice to Republicans in Congress about how to cooperate, but the fact of the matter is we used the same advisers and they say it's the same plan.

Unless we free ourselves from a dependence on these fossil fuels... we are condemning future generations to global catastrophe

Be conscious of God and speak always the truth.

When you've got a economy in which 40 percent of economic growth is happening in the financial sector, that turns out that was all an illusion, that it wasn't growth based on real products and services, but just a bunch of paper shuffling and a house of cards, then what's gonna emerge, at some point, is a sense of resentment, a sense that the system's rigged, and it's not working for ordinary people. And it's not fulfilling the basic American dream.