We are here to celebrate the completion of the first survey of the entire human genome. Without a doubt, this is the most important, most wondrous map ever produced by human kind.

Americans - not just starting thirty years ago but going back to the beginning, when we were rebelling against King George - we've always been of two minds about the government, which is why the framers wrote the Constitution the way they did.

I don't think the Republicans can damage my character

If you want to know where I come by the passionate commitment I have to bringing people together without regard to race, it all started with my grandfather.

If no one consumes these products, people will stop roducing them. They will not build it if you didn't come.

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.

Nearly everyone will lie to you, given the right circumstances.