"Unless we make education a priority, an entire generation of Americans could miss out on the American dream."

"It's not my job to dream your dreams. It's my job to make your dreams become a reality."

"Voters must have faith in the electoral process for our democracy to succeed."

"Improving our national intelligence capabilities should remain a top priority and a continual process."

"The first wealth is health."

"In general, science journalism concerns itself with what has been published in a handful of peer-reviewed journals - Nature, Cell, The New England Journal of Medicine - which set the agenda."

"Perhaps one of the most important things you can do for human beings is wean them off an animal-based diet. It hardens the arteries and runs up our health-care costs. The last thing a poor person can afford is a heart attack or cancer or a stroke. And that's all linked to a meat-based diet. I think animal liberation is human liberation."

"The national debate on health care once centered on improving access to quality care, yet the effect of Obamacare will be the exact opposite, resulting in the shameful degradation of care for the neediest individuals."