The way we're really going to grow the economy is to invest in people, to invest in innovation, to have the federal government put money in the kind of research that will create the new high-technology, bio-technology industries that will create the millions of new jobs.

[Religion is a way of reconstructing] what has come to feel like a crumbling moral framework in the life of our nation.

We cannot fulfill that purpose [environmentalism] if we are heaping contempt on God's creation.

Dear Mr. President: ... We urge you, after consulting with Congress, and consistent with the U.S. Constitution and laws, to take necessary actions (including, if appropriate, air and missile strikes on suspect Iraq sites) to respond effectively to the threat posed by Iraq's refusal to end its weapons of mass destruction programs.

Tonight I am going with my wife to a Democratic party, where we're going to...try to be happy.

I miss the days when faith was discussed in public and not the most intimate details of our personal lives.

I also urge the Obama administration - both on its own and in cooperation with other responsible governments around the world - to use all legal means necessary to shut down WikiLeaks before it can do more damage by releasing additional cables. WikiLeaks' activities represent a shared threat to collective international security.