The earth is warming at an alarming rate, we are running out of fossil fuels, and it is long past time for us to take action to correct these problems.

It's the economy, stupid.

As we have throughout this century, we will lead with the power of our example, but be prepared, when necessary, to make an example of our power.

You live in the age of interdependence. Borders don't count for much or stop much, good or bad, anymore.

I might not have been President if it hadn't been for school music. Learning improves in school environments where there are comprehensive music programs.

constituted a critical lapse in judgement and a personal failure on my part for which I am solely responsable

This is one way that wealthy Americans could really contribute. They could put hundreds of millions of dollars into the infrastructure bank, be a good investment for them, for their children, for their grandchildren, and they would directly contribute to revitalizing a big sector of middle-class wages in America and making our country more productive, so that we could create more opportunity. But I think that we could get a lot of grassroots support from, like, local chambers of commerce and other things if they understood exactly how this infrastructure bank would work.