I feel very strongly we need to do a better job with the rainy day fund.

My goal as governor is for Colorado to have the cleanest air and the cleanest water in the country, and to be a model for the nation in using clean, renewable sources of energy.

I grew up in a family that was committed to service, to reaching out and helping others. That's what inspired me to work in public service.

I see it as very important that taxpayers have access to all financial transactions.

If anything, the genuine human struggles in 'Sicko' raise questions about our society that run much deeper than what passes for political discourse today. Why does such a rich nation let people suffer and die without health care?

The idea of 'climate' - in quotation marks - is never going to be the issue. It's always going to be a local, human issue. And so to the extent that you put 'climate' on the ballot, that's never going to move the needle.

Probably my mother's life was prolonged beyond that of a long-lived family by her coming to Australia in middle life; and if I ever had any tendency to consumption, the climate must have helped me.

The old problems - love, money, security, status, health, etc. - are still here to plague us or please us.