If we look to the future, when we talk about outsourcing jobs, when we talk about global competitiveness and our efficiency, none of that matters very much unless we have appropriate training and education for our young people today who are the workforce of tomorrow. It is an economic reality, and we are failing.

The American people expect and deserve a government that works and leaders who work together.

When we talk about safety and security of the American people, politics falls aside pretty quickly.

Sound science must be a basis to governing our trade relations around the globe.

Voluntary personal savings accounts would enable future retirees to harness the power of the marketplace when saving for their retirements.

America has the best doctors, the best nurses, the best hospitals, the best medical technology, the best medical breakthrough medicines in the world. There is absolutely no reason we should not have in this country the best health care in the world.

Education brings about opportunity, and in turn inspiration.