Fundamentally, people ought to be able to live near where they work.

For the Cambridge citizens, it's a big love-fest. We think it's great that [they] extol good use of public transportation and walking ... that's fantastic.

These patterns combined with poor fuel economy in our cars makes transportation the biggest and fastest-growing contributor to global warming. Any meaningful effort to address global warming must include forward-thinking transportation and smart growth solutions.

People have heard about [various tax breaks] and don't truly understand how they work in terms of dollars.

They are a bit more sanguine about inflation than the market has been, and they've been trying to tell people that. It doesn't mean they have their head stuck in the sand. With the last sentence of their statement, they leave themselves plenty of flexibility.

[There's a reason why politicians are telling the American people to do the right thing and get to the mall.] Consumer spending is the 800-pound gorilla when you're talking about the economy, ... It's two-thirds of the economy.