I will get things done for America.... Faced with apathy, I will take action. Faced with conflict, I will seek common ground.... Faced with adversity, I will persevere. I will carry this commitment with me this year. I am an Americorps volunteer.

We live in an interdependent world. Every time you cut off somebody else's opportunities, you shrink your own horizons.

Just try to imagine what it would be like to be 300 million years old.

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

For too long we've been told about 'us' and 'them.' Each and every election we see a new slate of arguments and ads telling us that 'they' are the problem, not 'us.' But there can be no 'them' in America. There's only us.

When personal freedom's being abused, you have to move to limit it.

The greatest progress we have made, and the greatest progress we have yet to make, is in the human heart. In the end, all the world's wealth and a thousand armies are no match for the strength and decency of the human spirit.