It's only in America where there seems to be this sort of systematic denial of the reality of global warming at the governmental level, and in too many sectors of the high, the private sector. But it looks to me the business community may actually lead us toward a clean energy future almost in spite of government policy.

More people can be great leaders than think they can, but they need a purpose greater than themselves.

It appears that some school officials, teachers, and parents have assumed that religious expression of any type is either inappropriate or forbidden altogether in public schools; however, nothing in the First Amendment converts our public schools into religion-free zones.

When I think about the world I would like to leave to my daughter and the grandchildren I hope to have, it is a world that moves away from unequal, unstable, unsustainable interdependence to integrated communities - locally, nationally and globally - that share the characteristics of all successful communities.

We're all in this together is a far better philosophy than you're on your own.

A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and self-serving.

My major political identity has been as her spouse for the last decade and I like it that way.