America is a strong and resilient country. And I know we will succeed, if we put aside partisanship and politics and work together as one nation.

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.

Under my plan of a cap-and-trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket.

The elevation of appearance over substance, of celebrity over character, of short term gains over lasting achievement displays a poverty of ambition. It distracts you from what's truly important.

For the first time, preventing nuclear proliferation and nuclear terrorism is now at the top of America's nuclear agenda.

No country on Earth would tolerate missiles raining down on its citizens from outside its borders.

You know, it's fashionable right now for people to be cynical. We go in cycles like this and right now a lot of people are saying, 'Oh, America is doing terribly' and 'What are we going to do?'