Americans want students to get the best education possible. We want schools to prepare children to become good citizens and members of a prosperous American economy.

Talking to mothers, always brings it home because they're so anxious to do everything they can for their kids and so tragic for them.

Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.

The Internet is the easiest thing to get into. To be an Internet retailer, you just get that URL.

Almost every way we make electricity today, except for the emerging renewables and nuclear, puts out CO2. And so, what we're going to have to do at a global scale, is create a new system. And so, we need energy miracles.

People who feel the world is tilted against them will spawn the kind of hatred that is very dangerous for all of us. I think it's a healthy sign that there are demonstrators in the streets. They are raising the question of 'is the rich world giving back enough?'

Success is a lousy teacher. It makes you think you know what you're doing.