I am grateful to President George W. Bush for PEPFAR, which is saving the lives of millions of people in poor countries and to both Presidents Bush for the work we've done together after the South Asia tsunami, Hurricane Katrina and the Haitian earthquake.

The American people have now spoken, but it's going to take a little while to determine what they've said.

Nobody is right all the time and even a broken clock is right twice a day.

It is dangerously destabilizing to have half the world on the cutting edge of technology while the other half struggles on the bare edge of survival.

If we were being attached by space aliens, we wouldn't be playing these kinds of games.

President Obama's approach embodies the values, the ideas and the direction America has to take to build the 21st-century version of the American Dream: a nation of shared opportunities, shared responsibilities, shared prosperity, a shared sense of community.

Most of the major mistakes I made in my life, I made when I was too tired to know what I was doing - both personally and professionally.