We need a spirit of community, a sense that we are all in this together. If we have no sense of community, the American dream will wither.

Turning 50 gives me more yesterdays than tomorrows.

If you wanted to create jobs in a way that has minimal effect on the deficit but has government action, the two best things you could do are the infrastructure bank and a simple SBA-like loan guarantee for all building retrofits, where the contractor or the energy-service company guarantees the savings. So that allows the bank to loan money to let a school or a college or a hospital or a museum or a commercial building unencumbered by debt to loan it on terms that are longer, so you can pay it back only from your utility savings. You could create a million jobs doing that.

I have news for the forces of greed and the defenders of the status quo: your time has come - and gone. It's time for change in America.

There are always going to be people who want to be president, and some days I'd like to give it to them.

North Koreans are irrational to some extent, but I don't think they're totally irrational. I think they watch American cable channels. I think they watch the European cable channels. I think they, their decision makers keep up more than we know. And I think they want us to think they're a little crazy.

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.