I'm going to be honest with you - I don't know a lot about Cuba's healthcare system. Is it a government-run system?

What we do right now, today, matters.

It's hard to believe that in the greatest democracy in the world, we need legislation to prevent the government from writing and paying for the news.

We cannot continue to see the Middle East in the context of 9/11. We must see it in the context of 2011.

You might not see climate change as an immediate threat to your job, your community, or your families," Kerry said. "But let me tell you, it is." He continued, "climate change is directly related to the potential of greater conflict and greater instability. I'm telling you that there are people in parts of the world - in Africa today, they fight each other over water. They kill each over it. And if glaciers are melting and there's less water available and more people, that is a challenge we have to face.

I do think that it's really important for leaders of countries to be very clear and careful in the statements they make because their words are weighed extremely carefully by other countries, and you have to create a continuity of seriousness and of credibility in order to be able to be taken seriously and get things done.

That is what Americans do. We face a challenge - no matter how great - because we know that on the other side there is always hope.