I mean, when's the last time we elected a president based on one year of service in the Senate before he started running? I mean, he will have been a senator longer by the time he's inaugurated, but essentially once you start running for president full time you don't have time to do much else.

The American people have now spoken, but it's going to take a little while to determine what they've said.

The most profound security threat we face today is global warming....climate change has the capacity to change the way all of us live.

Music, to me, was - is - representative of everything I like most in life. It's beautiful and fun, but very rigorous. If you wanted to be good you had to work like crazy. It was a real relationship between effort and reward. My musical life experiences were just as important to me, in terms of forming my development, as my political experiences or my academic life.

I admire that about the Republicans: The evidence does not faze them. They are not bothered at all by the facts.

Music can give you your dreams. It will teach you hard work, it will break your heart and make you so happy, you can't stand it. . . .I don't think I'd have been president if it hadn't been for music.

We must teach our children to resolve their conflicts with words, not weapons.