Our generation, like the one before us, must choose. Without the threat of the Cold War, without the pain of economic ruin, without the fresh memory of World War II's slaughter, it is tempting to pursue our private agendas -- to simply sit back and let history unfold. We must resist the temptation.

Success is not the measure of a man but a triumph over those who choose to hold him back.

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.

I tried marijuana once. I did not inhale.

I want to nominate a man who's cool on the outside, but who burns for America on the inside.

As we have throughout this century, we will lead with the power of our example, but be prepared, when necessary, to make an example of our power.

Considering the current sad state of our computer programs, software development is clearly still a black art, and cannot yet be called an engineering discipline.