And with iPods and iPads, and Xboxes and PlayStations - none of which I know how to work - information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment, rather than a tool of empowerment, rather than the means of emancipation.

Nations are more successful when their women are successful.

So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can; it's just that it will bankrupt them because they're going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that's being emitted.

With the changing economy, no one has lifetime employment. But community colleges provide lifetime employability.

We the people declare today that the most evident of truth that all of us are created equal ... that our individual freedom is inextricably bound to the freedom of every soul on Earth.

The framers, in their wisdom, designed the [political] system so that power's pretty disbursed.

[My grandmother] is a typical white person.