Truly, to blame the president for high gas prices is like blaming Rudy Giuliani for 9/11.

Those who purify your water, inspect your meat, and test your kids toys, as well as a huge number of nurses, teachers, and our soldiers, are public employees. The firefighters who don't hesitate to rush toward danger while you run away from it - they are all public employees.

As a state we are so uniquely positioned in so many ways. Our geography, our placement in the country, and our history positions us to be the state that propels energy efficiency as an industry.

We aren't leveraging this great economic engine, the strongest economy in the world. And yet we have this totally weak response. We import $500 billion a year more in products than we export.

We have gasoline at $2 a gallon. If that doesn't drive demand, I don't know what will.

Every day in America, African Americans are reminded of their race in ways large and small. Every day.

Public service used to be the highest of callings, until people like Madame Voldemort vilified it.