Global warming is not just the greatest environmental challenge facing our planet - it is one of our greatest challenges of any kind.

We could come together, Democrats and Republicans, to find practical, commonsense solutions to health care, to education, to energy issues, because although I'm a proud Democrat, I'm a prouder American. And I think all of us believe, regardless of our party affiliations, that this is a critical time, where we've got to solve big problems.

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

In Texas, we hold very dear to intrusions against our personal liberty. We fight very hard against that.

What I've seen in my own life is that when I get something important done it's because of a lot of other people - some who get credit, some who don't.

I attend Trinity United Church of Christ, and my pastor [was] Jeremiah Wright.

And I’ve said this all across the country when I talk to parents about education, government has to fulfill its obligations to fund education, but parents have to do their job too. We’ve got to turn off the TV set, we’ve got to put away the video game, and we have to tell our children that education is not a passive activity, you have to be actively engaged in it. If we encourage that attitude and our community is enforcing it, I have no doubt we can compete with anybody in the world.