Frankly, I'm fed up with politicians in Washington lecturing the rest of us about family values. Our families have values. But our government doesn't.

They are cutting medicare

The world has never truly had to develop an ethic of interdependence rooted in our common humanity. And if we do it, the 21st century will be the most interesting, exciting, peaceful era in history.

The only preparation for prospering in the global economy is investing in ourselves.

The risk is that as we come out of this recession, we'll have so much debt to finance, we'll either have to have inflation or very high interest rates to continue to borrow the money, or both. That's a risk.

I have said many times-if I hadn't been exposed to music as a child I don't think I would have been president.

Everybody counts, everybody deserves a chance, everybody has a responsible role to play and we all do better when we work together.