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.

To build a twenty-first-century economy, America must revive a nineteenth-century habit--investing in the common, national economic resources that enable every person and every firm to create wealth and value.

America just works better when more people have a chance to live their dreams.

The ideals that bind us together are as old as our nation, but so are the forces that pull us apart.

When it comes to anything that's social, whether it's your family, your school, your community, your business or your country, winning is a team sport.

The secret to living a full life with no regrets and to staying young is to figure out what you believe in and fight for it. If you lose, don't give up. If you win, raise the bar, and then rare back and do something else. And remember that, with the accumulation of years, our responsibilities to the future grow greater, not less.

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