Seven and half years ago I began my own journey. For me and my family it was a time of adversity. But during that adversity I derived a deeper faith. And born out of that adversity was a commitment to devote myself to those people and to those issues that truly matter to me.

This land, this water, this air, this planet - this is our legacy to our young.

You are Americans. You love this country. Together we are entrusted with the principles that represent mankind's greatest political and social achievement.

No one on his deathbed ever said, "I wish I had spent more time on my business."

I wish I had spent more time at the office.

Breastroke is an athletic event, butterfly is a political statement.

A commencement is a time of joy. It is also a time of melancholy. But then again, so is life.