I don't regret the excitement, because I do think that it helped us accomplish as much as we did.

In my first term, I sang Al Green. In my second term, I'm going with Young Jeezy.

A sportswriter once referred to him as our future president. With a name like Kevin, I don't know whether that's possible.

Today we continue a never ending journey to bridge the meaning of those words with the realities of our time.

We need scientists to design new fuels. We need farmers to help grow them. We need engineers to invent new technologies. We need entrepreneurs to sell those technologies. We need workers to operate assembly lines that hum with high-tech, zero-carbon components. We need builders to hammer into place the foundations for a clean energy age. We need diplomats and businessmen and women, and Peace Corps volunteers to help developing nations skip past the dirty phase of development and transition to sustainable sources of energy. In other words, we need you.

If everybody voted, then it would completely change the political map in this country.

These are young people who made mistakes that aren't that different than the mistakes I made and the mistakes that a lot of you guys made, we have a tendency sometimes to almost take for granted or think it's normal that so many young people end up in our criminal justice system. It's not normal. ... What is normal is teenagers doing stupid things.