China is certainly an important player in the global economy, and a widespread AIDS epidemic would threaten that growth.

Energy is very primal stuff and there are a lot of leads that are promising, still at a fairly risky stage, but over the next decade some of these breakthrough approaches are going to pay out, and U.S. research and U.S. leadership on this should be part of how it gets solved.

I want to make clear that we respect the role of government in our legal andeconomic system.

The U.S. and Canada are two generous governments and we reach out and partner with anyone who believes in foreign aid.

To get a big company moving fast, especially on a many-headed opportunity like the Internet, you have to have hundreds of people participating and coming up with ideas.

If you believe that all men are created equal, then a child's death in some other country is no less tragic than in the United States.

Is the rich world aware of how four billion of the six billion live? If we were aware, we would want to help out, we'd want to get involved.