We must all be profoundly grateful for the magnificent achievements of our forbearers in this century. Yet perhaps in the daily press of events, in the clash of controversy, we don't see our own time for what it truly is - a new dawn for America.

You know the one thing that's wrong with this country? Everyone gets a chance to have their fair say.

We should set a national goal of making computers and Internet access available for every American . . . we must help all Americans gain the skills they need to make the most of the connection.

Well, first of all, I think that a lot of the voters who are voting for the tea party candidates have really good impulses. That is, they believe that for years and years and years, the people with wealth and power or government power have done well and ordinary people have not. That's true.

There are always going to be people who want to be president, and some days I'd like to give it to them.

Along the way they're (MLB) going to lose millions of more American fans.

Politics gives guys so much power that they tend to behave badly around women. And I hope I never get into that.