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We need to become energy independent or at least aspire to that.

Inspiring conduct has so much more of an impact than coercing it.

A vision without resources is an hallucination.

Being one of my sources is exhausting. It's not one interview and you're done. I keep going back until I feel like I understand everything.

McDonald's cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas, the designer of the F-15.

I love America. I think it's the best country in the world. But I also think we're not tending to our sauce.

Remember, in China when you are one in a million, there are 1,300 other people just like you.

If you don't visit a bad neighborhood, it might visit you.

In the future, how we educate our children may prove to be more important than how much we educate them.

A golf course should aspire to generate as much energy as it consumes - golf should be leading the way toward energy net zero.

Geopolitics is all about leverage. We cannot make ourselves safer abroad unless we change our behavior at home.

If you don't have an ethic of conservation, you basically have a license to drive a Hummer through the Amazon.

Optimists are usually wrong. But all the great change in history, positive change, was done by optimists.

Guantanamo Bay is the anti-Statue of Liberty.

I said that more people in more places can now compete, connect and collaborate with equal power and equal tools than ever before.

Every sport needs its temple, its cathedral.

Hope and optimism aren't just attitudes, they are life strategies.

Every golf course should have its carbon rating on the scorecard, alongside its Course Rating, Slope, par and yardage.

Do you know what my favorite renewable fuel is? An ecosystem for innovation.

I was in Bangalore, India, the Silicon Valley of India, when I realized that the world was flat.

Capitalism makes people unequally rich. Communism makes people equally poor.

Capitalism and political systems - like companies - must constantly evolve to stay vital.

I firmly believe that the next great breakthrough in bioscience could come from a 15-year-old who downloads the human genome in Egypt.

Saudi hijackers first came into contact with al-Qaeda and went through Terrorism 101 when they signed up for the jihad in Afghanistan.

The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist.

The first rule of holes is when you're in one, stop digging. When you're in three, bring a lot of shovels.

When you lose your job, the unemployment rate isn't four percent, it's 100 percent.

What every employer is looking for is not someone who can do the job, but someone who can reinvent the job.

Rock stars get room keys, I get business cards. Wherever I go I meet innovators of wind power equipment, solar energy operators.

The Golden Straitjacket is the defining political-economic garment of globalization. [ ... ] The tighter you wear it, the more gold it produces.

We are led by lawyers who do not understand either technology or balance sheets.

If you don't visit the bad neighborhoods, the bad neighborhoods are going to visit you.

Desktop freelancers and innovative startups all over the world

The only engine big enough to impact Mother Nature is Father Greed.

It is hard to partner with someone when you become so radioactive no one wants to stand next to you.

You win the presidency by connecting with the American people's gut insecurities and aspirations. You win with a concept.

When it comes to dealing with the world's climate and energy challenges, I have a simple rule: change America, change the world.

I've always enjoyed the communal side of Jewish life.

Yes, the world is now flat for publishing as well.

Entrepreneurs don't write a 100-page business plan and execute it one time; they're always experimenting and adapting based on what they learn.

There is no substitute for face-to-face reporting and research.

You'll know the green revolution has been won when the word 'green' disappears.

There's nothing like living a little close to the edge that gets you motivated to ensure that you get the credentials you need to succeed.

Our kids are going to be so angry with us one day. We've charged their future on our Visa cards.

No, most of our political elite has not realized that the world is flat.

The historical debate is over. The answer is free-market capitalism.

Presidents grow up in the White House. The times shape the man.

We've given Iraq six months and I don't think things are really working out, so we should probably bring our troops home.

John Kennedy led us on a journey to discover the moon. Obama needs to lead us on a journey to rediscover, rebuild and reinvent our own backyard.

I attended public school with the same group of kids from K through 12.

We have to be the best global citizens we can be.

My mom enlisted in the U.S. Navy in World War II, and my parents actually bought our home thanks to the loan she got through the GI Bill.

Tap into people's dignity and they will do anything for you. Ignore it, and they won't lift a finger.

We have to fight the terrorists as if there were no rules and preserve our open society as if there were no terrorists.

Change your leaders, not your light bulbs.

I'm from Minnesota. I'm optimistic. I mean, that's just who I am.

I have a daughter who is a sophomore in college and another who is in the 11th grade of high school.

We say that necessity is the mother of invention, and no country has more of a necessity to develop clean power than China.

What is al Qaeda? It's an open source religious political movement that works off the global supply chain.

Iraq may still have a decent outcome ... but even if it becomes Switzerland, we overpaid for it.