If you are focusing your anger at government, you are focusing your anger at all of us. Government is just a personification of this country.

Thomas Jefferson believed that to preserve the very foundations of our Nation, we would need dramatic change from time to time. Well, my fellow Americans, this is our time. Let us embrace it.

When some Republican governors asked to try new ways to put people on welfare back to work, the Obama Administration said they would only do it if they had a credible plan to increase employment by 20%. You hear that? More work. So the claim that President Obama weakened welfare reform's work requirement is just not true.

The simple fact is that we must not-and we will not-surrender our borders to those who wish to exploit our history of compassion and justice.

I am fascinated by this partnership between Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett. It's magic and I love it.

True Excellence requires a worthy dream, a good Idea of how to realize it and the courage to risk failure to achieve it.

This is a huge problem. If we don't deal with this within just a few years, you will have island nations flooded; you will have the agricultural balance of most countries completely changed; you will have a dramatic increase in the number of severe, unmanageable weather events... And the good news is that we can now deal with this problem - and strengthen our economic growth, not weaken it.