Communications and commerce are global; investment is mobile; technology is almost magical; and ambition for a better life is now universal. We earn our livelihood in peaceful competition with people all across the earth. Profound and powerful forces are shaking and remaking our world, and the urgent question of our time is whether we can make change our friend and not our enemy.

You should strive to find happiness every day and not believe that it comes at the end of the journey.

The struggle for your own character is the struggle for the nation's character.

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

Only the police should have handguns.

Nothing big ever came from being small.

I think it's crazy for us to play games with our children's future. We know what's happening to the climate, we have a highly predictable set of consequences if we continue to pour greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.