The issue of climate change is one that we ignore at our own peril

I then spoke to chancellor (Angela) Merkel of Germany and we agreed that the United States and our European allies will work closely together in the weeks and months ahead.

You might not be ready for diplomacy with Beijing if you can't visit the Olympics without insulting our closest ally.

I don't mind cleaning up the mess that some other folks made, that's what I signed up to do

Owes unions who endorsed him; that's why he's in politics.

If we have Osama bin Laden in our sights and the Pakistani government is unable or unwilling to take them out, then, I think that we have to act and we will take them out. We will kill bin Laden. We will crush al Qaeda. That has to be our biggest national security priority.

It [is] that courage that Africa most desperately needs.