We have been maintaining a standard of living by putting things on the debt of the next generation.

A nation has its first obligation to its own workers and its own poor.

Many seniors understand that Social Security is social insurance as opposed to a program where we put money aside for our own retirement. But most elderly individuals think they're getting their money back. So it isn't selfishness as much as a misunderstanding.

I believe we all must face the fact of death. It is both gift and curse.

Politics, like theater, is one of those things where you've got to be wise enough to know when to leave.

Our globe is under new dramatic environmental pressure: our globe is warming, our ice caps melting, our glaciers receding, our coral is dying, our soils are eroding, our water tables falling, our fisheries are being depleted, our remaining rainforests shrinking. Something is very, very wrong with our eco-system.

The U.S. needs to do more than change presidents. It needs to change its political culture.