I love America. I think it's the best country in the world. But I also think we're not tending to our sauce.

When you study history and look at every civilization that has grown up and died off, they all leave one remnant: a major sports colosseum at the heart of their capital. Our fate can be different; but only if we start doing things differently.

Our kids are going to be so angry with us one day. We've charged their future on our Visa cards.

I have no problem with a war for oil-if we accompany it with a real program for energy conservation. But when we tell the world we couldn't care less about climate change, that we feel entitled to drive whatever big cars we feel like, that we feel entitled to consume however much oil we like, the message we send is that a war for oil in the gulf is not a war to protect the world's right to economic survival-but our right to indulge. Now that will be seen as immoral.

It is hard to partner with someone when you become so radioactive no one wants to stand next to you.

The thing you have to remember is, oil and gas are commodities, and the more we use them the more the price goes up, like any commodity. Solar, wind - they are technologies, so the more you use them, the more the price goes down.

In a hyper-connected world where average is over, there is one thing we know absolutely for sure: Every good job will require more education.