The hardest part was the ultimatums. Every time, you die a little bit because you think now it's going to happen to him.

We need to be here with our children. We don't want to be over there at this time.

We didn't feel it was an affront or a negative thing, or an equation between the terrorists and the people who were trying to eliminate them — not innocent people, but people who would try to make another Munich.

The pace of global warming is accelerating and the scale of the impact is devastating. The time for action is limited - we are approaching a tipping point beyond which the opportunity to reverse the damage of CO2 emissions will disappear.

The attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon shook our nation to the core. Americans were deeply frightened, sad, and angry, and they rallied around a President who, at the time, showed impressive certitude and calm.

We are all used to paying a sales tax when we buy things - almost 9 percent here in New York City. The application of this concept to the financial sector could solve our need for revenue, bring some sanity back into the financial sector, and give us a way to raise the revenue we need to run the government in a fiscally responsible way.