I think that for many of us, the years of the Civil Rights movements - Martin Luther King, Bobby Kennedy running for president in 1968 to end the war and so forth - these were defining moment in terms of trying to hold government accountable and have a level of responsibility and truth-telling.

We are not interested in a proxy war. Our objective is to change Russia's behavior.

Climate change is real. The science is compelling. And the longer we wait, the harder the problem will be to solve.

I have a plan to protect the environment so that we leave this place in better shape to our children than we were handed it by our parents.

Great challenges confront our great nation. We seek to meet them by rising to the task, not by defining our country down.

It appears that with the deadline for exile come and gone, Saddam Hussein has chosen to make military force the ultimate weapons inspections enforcement mechanism. If so, the only exit strategy is victory, this is our common mission and the world's cause.

We cannot fight communism all over the world, and I think we should have learned that lesson by now.