Our overriding environmental challenge tonight is the worldwide problem of climate change, global warming, the gathering crisis that requires worldwide action.

The Republicans could mess up a two car parade

Work is about more than making a living, as vital as that is. It's fundamental to human dignity, to our sense of self-worth as useful, independent, free people.

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.

If we were being attached by space aliens, we wouldn't be playing these kinds of games.

Sure enough at Oxford, I was another Yank half a step behind.

Sarah, there's a government inside the government, and I don't control it.