"We are tasked to rebuild not just a damaged economy, and a debt-ridden balance sheet, but to do so by drawing forth the best that is in our fellow citizens. If we would summon the best from Americans, we must assume the best about them. If we don't believe in Americans, who will?"

"If freedom's best friends cannot unify around a realistic, actionable program of fundamental change, one that attracts and persuades a broad majority of our fellow citizens, big change will not come."

"We do not accept that ours will ever be a nation of haves and have-nots. We must always be a nation of haves and soon-to-haves."

"Our first thought is always for those on life's first rung, and how we might increase their chances of climbing."

"Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money."

"If we build superintelligence carefully, a mirror reflecting our own human biases, so we must tread carefully into the future."

"If we build superintelligence carefully, the spark that ignites the next industrial revolution, but the timeline remains deeply uncertain."

"Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five children, my only hope is that they are all out of the house before I die."