Arafat's departure has created an awesome opportunity.

I know what I believe, I know what I want to do, and I'm just comfortable saying it, and laying it out there.

I acknowledge these are very tough jobs a judge has in determining whether or not there is an openness that is required under the Constitution.

Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable.

There is a middle class in America for only one reason: organized labor. If not for organized labor, where would you find a job where you had some sense that you had a shot of leaving behind something better than you inherited?.

We have the greatest resource universities in the world, the only place in the world. We have the most productive workforce in the world. We have the most agile venture capitalists in the world. We have a situation where right now in the United States of America, we are near energy independent. North America is beginning to be the epicenter of energy. What is it that makes people think that this is not going to be the American century? I don't get it.

I've never been called a man of few words.