Baseball is a diversion. It is therapy. It takes peoples minds off of everything that has happened, if just for a while.

We are one America. If we work together across party lines, there's no problem we can't solve and the 21st century will be America's greatest century.

What better day to lay the cornerstone of the Freedom Tower than the day our country declared its independence.

Freedom of speech is one of the greatest American liberties, and I hope this pardon serves as a reminder of the precious freedoms we are fighting to preserve as we continue to wage the war on terror.

And one of the frustrating parts, but it's an inherent part of our democracy, is we have separation of powers.

We have been actively trying to have New York City host the 2012 Olympics.

Putting Americans at risk for a political reason I think is wrong and I think it's unfortunate.