If we want unity, we must all be unifiers. If we want accountability, each of us must be accountable for all we do.

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.

It's our responsibility to pass on what we inherited, not to squander it, but to build on it.

I'm free. I'm free to say what I feel.

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.

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.