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

Government is not the problem, and government is not the solution. We - the American people - we are the solution.

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.

This is a huge problem. If we don't deal with this within just a few years, you will have island nations flooded; you will have the agricultural balance of most countries completely changed; you will have a dramatic increase in the number of severe, unmanageable weather events... And the good news is that we can now deal with this problem - and strengthen our economic growth, not weaken it.

I don't know whether it's the finest public housing in America or the crown jewel of the American penal system.

Nothing big ever came from being small.

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