Natural resources are so vast that no single individual or business is going to protect them; they don't have an incentive to.

Donald Trump behaving like a wild man. I mean, I just can`t imagine that people want a human tornado sitting in the oval office.

Much is forgiven anyone who relieves the desperate boredom of the working press.

Government can contribute to a shared sense of purpose on the part of the citizenry; that's its highest and best application.

We thought for the longest time we might have a chance to run the table because we're such nice guys and centrist party, etcetera, but not getting into the debates really sort of foreclosed that option.

In the nineteenth century, slavery was the greatest wrong, and government never stood so tall as when it was redressing that wrong.

I suggest to you that increasing the size of America's economic pie - which can be achieved only if everybody has a seat at the table - is the most important challenge facing our country today.