I think a lot of teachers want to talk about how to continually improve performance.

I believe that we have better ideas. But I also believe that good ideas don't matter if people don't hear them.

If we have actionable intelligence about high value terrorist targets and President [Pervez] Musharraf will not act, we will.

Jason Rezaian is coming home. A courageous journalist for The Washington Post who wrote about the daily lives and hopes of the Iranian people, he's been held for a year and a half. He embodies the brave spirit that gives life to the freedom of the press. Jason has already been reunited with his wife and mom.

The biggest deficit that we have in our society and in the world right now is an empathy deficit. We are in great need of people being able to stand in somebody else's shoes and see the world through their eyes.

We're going to reverse a trend that is killing most families in this country, and that is they're having to go in their pocket for more and more money for health care every year.

I will support Iraqis and Syrians fighting to reclaim their communities.