Nearly every problem has been solved by someone, somewhere. The challenge of the 21st century is to find out what works and scale it up.

I am trying to be honest with you and it hurts me. Now.

Let me be clear: we are still a nation of immigrants, and we honor all those immigrants who are working hard to become new citizens.

The road to tyranny, we must never forget, begins with the destruction of the truth.

President Obama has offered a plan with 4 trillion dollars in debt reduction over a decade, with two and a half dollars of spending reductions for every one dollar of revenue increases, and tight controls on future spending. It's the kind of balanced approach proposed by the bipartisan Simpson-Bowles commission.

Today, many companies are reporting that their number one constraint on growth is the inability to hire workers with the necessary skills.

Being gay, the last time I looked, had nothing to do with reading a balance book, fixing a broken bone or changing a spark plug.