You have to make a conscious decision to change for your own well-being, and that of your family and your country.

It is now conceivable that our children's children will know the term cancer only as a constellation of stars.

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.

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.

The future is not an inheritance, it is an opportunity and an obligation.

The Republicans could mess up a two car parade

People should really take care when they vote, and pay more attention to what people say they're going to do - instead of just how they feel about how things are going.