To this day, the United States is profoundly grateful for our friendship and alliance with Greece.

If there's one thing I would like to see, it'd be for us to be able to price the cost of carbon emissions.

We rise and fall as one people, one nation.

We're going to achieve our goal. We are going to degrade and ultimately defeat ISIL.

Persevere. Nothing worthwhile is easy.

The problem was, and we saw some of this in the immigration-reform issues as well, was they hadn't done sufficient homework to know that I didn't have all the capacity they thought I did in order to just execute this through the stroke of a pen.

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.