When I arrived in Laos and found young Americans living there, out of free choice, I was surprised. After only a week, I began to have a sense of the appeal of the country and its people - along with despair about its future.

It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before.

My next baby will be my new record.

I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

Now, anybody who thinks that we can move this economy forward with just a few folks at the top doing well, hoping that it's going to trickle down to working people who are running faster and faster just to keep up, you'll never see it.