So we are now still dependent on foreign oil, have a problem with global warming, and are losing jobs rapidly to the Japanese in fuel-efficient vehicles as a result of that very shortsighted progress.

Investing in industries and technology for the 21st century generates high-skilled, high-wage jobs for industries of the future.

A lot of people do not think of forests as a health issue, but we have found out that is where our clean water comes from, from the forests.

We can't tell China what to do if we don't do it ourselves. You don't inspire someone to take an action by refusing to take it yourself. We are in a race to be the dominant clean-energy provider to the world. Maybe this goes without saying: We've got to get China into an international protocol and the magic words are "common responsibility with differentiated action."

There is no excuse for this administration shielding information about Iraq and the fact that we have great difficulties there from the American people.

We allow it to be dumped into this community asset, which is our one and only atmosphere. So that has to change, and there's really only one entity that can do that. So we have proposed a cap-and-trade system to stop that unlimited pollution, to use the forces of the market to efficiently allocate scarce permits to allow CO2 into the atmosphere. That's just one of 500 things we need to do, but it's probably the granddaddy of them all.

When we design our national R&D programs, we ought to ensure a place for the small, the new, and the cutting-edge.