It is not acceptable that we continue to see thousands of acres burn because of forest fires, because of poor management on our forests, big kill, and we have these catastrophic situations take place when we are not able to take action.

we're focusing too much energy on the symptom rather than the disease: Our real enemy is poverty, not welfare.

Math and science fields are not the only areas where we see the United States lagging behind. Less than 1 percent of American high school students study the critical foreign languages of Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean or Russian, combined.

The true state of the union lies in your heart, and in your home.

You can be so dignified that you obscure the reality of what is going on.

I've lived the American Dream, but, sadly, for too many, the American Dream is fading.

Today, over half of China's undergraduate degrees are in math, science technology and engineering, yet only 16 percent of America's undergraduates pursue these schools.