Most people won't have opportunity to do full-time service, but those lucky enough to have monetary wealth or some spare time really can make an enormous difference. As someone who's now in the public sector, and is seeing up-close-and-personal the real impact of what we do and what we give, I can tell you: every dollar and every volunteer help, in more ways than you can count.

What you've got to do is be honest. Say what you believe. Give it to them straight. Just don't wuss out.

Is your company so small you have to do everything for yourself? Wait until you're so big that you can't. That's worse.

We have reduced poverty in the world by 50% since the year 1970 - the number of people who go to bed hungry, the number of people that have to sleep without a roof over their heads, the number of people that are illiterate.The world is better.

I don't know why you should be proud of something. It doesn't make you any better or worse. You are what you are.

Millions of Americans have contributed to building a stronger Israel; I've been proud to be one of them. Last year, I went to Jerusalem to help dedicate in my father's name a new MDA medical facility which treats people of all faiths and all nationalities absolutely equally.

In our democracy, near equality is no equality. Government either treats everyone the same, or it doesn't. And right now it doesn't.