It turns out that advancing equal opportunity and economic empowerment is both morally right and good economics. Why? Because discrimination, poverty and ignorance restrict growth. We know that investments in education, infrastructure and scientific and technological research increase growth. They increase good jobs, and they create new wealth for all of us.

AIDS is no longer a death sentence for those who can get the medicines. Now it's up to the politicians to create the "comprehensive strategies" to better treat the disease.

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.

True Excellence requires a worthy dream, a good Idea of how to realize it and the courage to risk failure to achieve it.

She got to go to heaven four days early.

You can put wings on a pig, but you don't make it an eagle.

When you're president, you learn to act like you know what you're talking about. And it's a great skill.