It was Mario Cuomo's great gift and our good fortune that he was both a sterling orator and a passionate public servant. His life was a blessing.

We need to be creating a world that we would like to live in when we're not the biggest power on the block.

[It] has a lot of things in it that I like, but I think it's way too hard on financing things from immigrants.

There is a huge body of business evidence now showing that energy savings give better service at lower cost with higher profit. We have to tear down barriers to successful markets and we have to create incentives to enter them.

Sharing in God's blessings is at the heart of Thanksgiving and at the core of the American spirit.

No generation has had the opportunity, as we now have, to build a global economy that leaves no-one behind. It is a wonderful opportunity, but also a profound responsibility.

It is inconceivable that anyone could say we have tried to hide anything