Being gay, the last time I looked, had nothing to do with reading a balance book, fixing a broken bone or changing a spark plug.

The stimulus is our bridge over troubled waters. And if it's invested well, it'll generate a lot of economic growth, and we'll get quite a bit of the revenues back.

The new century demands new partnerships for peace and security. The United Nations plays a crucial role, with allies sharing burdens America might otherwise bear alone. America needs a strong and effective U.N. I want to work with this new Congress to pay our dues and our debts. We must continue to support security and stability in Europe and Asia - expanding NATO and defining its new missions, maintaining our alliance with Japan, with Korea, with our other Asian allies, and engaging China.

Golf is like life in a lot of ways - All the biggest wounds are self-inflicted.

We simply have to transition from an economy based almost exclusively on oil and coal and natural gas to one that's far more diversified, that uses solar energy, and wind energy, and the power of the tides, and bio-mass energy, and eventually, develops hydrogen.

We have to change the whole job structure of America. We have got to basically reorient our economy toward the future.

I don't believe you can find any evidence of the fact that I have changed government policy solely because of a contribution.