Leadership means bringing people together in pursuit of a common cause, developing a plan to achieve it, and staying with it until the goal is achieved.

You know, I've always been really interested in this stuff, and I'm going to read this.

Sometimes I feel like the fire hydrant looking at a pack of dogs.

It's the biggest public health problem in America, the rising rates of obesity among our young people and very heavy statistics among our adult population.

I like the job. That's what I'll miss the most... I'm not sure anybody ever liked this as much as I've liked it.

The Bush administration continues to coddle China, despite its continuing crackdown on democratic reform, its brutal subjugation of Tibet, its irresponsible export of nuclear and missile technology... Such forbearance on our part might have made sense during the Cold War when China was the counterweight to Soviet power. It makes no sense to play the China card now when our opponents have thrown in their hand.

Together, people with good hearts and fine minds can move the world.