Progress is not inevitable. It's up to us to create it.

The public is mad, frustrated, but what the public wants is progress.

We are the safest large city in America, but any crime rate is too high.

After hard work, the biggest determinant is being in the right place at the right time.

We're paying more for the privilege of getting sick and dying early. Once again, it makes no sense. And once again, no one in Washington is talking about how to fix it.

Unemployment in America today is too high. And part of the reason, unfortunately, is that many companies cannot fill the high-skilled jobs increasingly at risk of going overseas.

I don't have a problem with a woman being president; I just want the best candidate.