Nothing we do in this great capital can change the fact that factories or information can flash across the world, that people can move money around in the blink of an eye... Nothing can change the fact that technology can be adopted, once created, by people all across the world and then rapidly adapted in new and different ways by people who have a little different take on the way that technology works.

[They let] friendship with the leaders in China obscure our devotion to freedom and democracy when those kids set up in Tiananmen Square, and I think it was wrong.

Noting his mother's visit to Las Vegas the weekend before she died. She got to go to heaven four days early.

I am committed to curbing the influence of money in our political system.

No problem of human making is too great to be overcome by human ingenuity, human energy, and the untiring hope of the human spirit.

You don't have to wait till your party's in power to have an impact on life at home and around the world.

A world without walls is the only sustainable world. . . . If the world is dominated by people who believe that their races, their religions, their ethnic differences are the most important factors, then a huge number of people will perish in this century.