There is just no reason why the richest nation in the world can't provide health care to all its people.

We need to take advantage of the opportunity we have now to create a vision and become great.

There is just no reason why the richest nation in the world can't provide health care to all its people.

When nearly a third of our high school students do not graduate on time with their peers, we have work to do. We must design our middle and high schools so that no student gets lost in the crowd and disconnected from his or her own potential.

We may disagree on some things, but we can do so without being disagreeable.

It is up to us to live up to the legacy that was left for us, and to leave a legacy that is worthy of our children and of future generations.

I will never be able to create a budget from scratch with the amount of time that I have, but my instructions remain the same: Give me a budget that has no new revenue.