Education is the key to opportunity. It's a ticket out of poverty.

We need an independent media to hold people like me to account.

The United States will continue its efforts to improve our understanding of climate change - to seek hard data, accurate models, and new ways to improve the science - and determine how best to meet these tremendous challenges.

If you have a plan, we want to hear it. Tell your community leaders, your local officials, your governor, and your team in Washington. Believe me, your ideas count. An individual can make a difference.

The only time I had any butterflies was when I stood up and backed toward the open door and looked down.

The fact is prosperity has a purpose. It's to allow us to pursue "the better angels," to give us time to think and grow.

There are things we can do to give us a little more attention.... I've got to look more frantic.