Hillary Clinton has decided to line up with John McCain in pushing to suspend the federal excise tax on gasoline, 18.4 cents a gallon, for this summer's travel season. This is not an energy policy. This is money laundering: we borrow money from China and ship it to Saudi Arabia and take a little cut for ourselves as it goes through our gas tanks. What a way to build our country.

The country that owns green, that dominates that industry, is going to have the most energy security, national security, economic security, competitive companies, healthy population and, most of all, global respect.

I'm from Minnesota. I'm optimistic. I mean, that's just who I am.

I was in Bangalore, India, the Silicon Valley of India, when I realized that the world was flat.

No, most of our political elite has not realized that the world is flat.

It's easy to kind of say it's the elite that's putting you down. Well, it wasn't really the elite, technology will do that.

The unemployment rate today for people with our-year college degrees is 4.1%, which is almost none. That's people switching jobs basically. That tells you that education is the only way up and the only way out. If that is the fact, then we've got to get more of it for more people.