$100,000 donors buy access to Congress and the White House. We believe it's long past time to clean up Washington.

Demand that your government pays more attention. It's immoral that people in Africa die like flies of diseases that no one dies of in the United States. And the more disease there is, the more political unrest there will be, leading to more Darfurs, which the U.S. will have to pay to fix.

The worst thing about not being president anymore is I was disoriented for three weeks because nobody every played a song when I walked in.

Just because we cannot do everything for everyone does not mean we should do nothing for anyone.

. . . unfortunately, we can't control the actions of everyone.

The Information Age is, first and foremost, an education age, in which education must start at birth and continue throughout a lifetime. Last year, from this podium, I said that education has to be our highest priority. I have something to say to every family listening to us tonight: Your children can go on to college.... Because of the things that have been done, we can make college as universal in the 21st century as high school is today. And, my friends, that will change the face and future of America.

Running helps me stay on an even keel and in an optimistic frame of mind.