Summer is conference season - a critical time for building brands, making connections, and shaping industries.

That's really why I want to go to space - I want to be weightless for so long that it gets boring.

In the space of three weeks, I met a fair bunch of the guys who were just starting those little programmers' co-ops, and everybody was talking about starting businesses.

Well, take the evolution of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. It began as hackers' rights. Then it became general civil liberties of everybody - government stay away.

We voted for Obama on rhetoric of 'hope and change.' We voted for him because of some idea that he was beyond politics and certainly beyond partisanship.

In politics, as in poetry, it is sometimes true that it is darkest before dawn.

There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

We believe that in times like these we should turn to each other, not on each other. We believe that government has a role to play, not in solving every problem in everybody's life but in helping people help themselves to the American dream. That's what Democrats believe.