this was maybe a unique opportunity--hopefully not the only opportunity--for some kind of rapprochement between Pakistan and India

I believe the President's combined civil-military strategies are our best hope to turn the tide in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

The possibility that Islamic radicals could destabilize and undermine the Pakistani state has become, frankly, all too real.

I came away believing we have a window of opportunity to arrest deteriorating security conditions in both countries.

Both India and Pakistan must leapfrog the hurdles of historical distrust and conflicts to fight the common enemies of poverty, terror, and religious extremism.

the most immediate threat to Pakistan right now was internal.

we must ensure rigorous and transparent market oversight.

the solar energy emitted by the Sun in 1 hour is enough to provide the power that we use on this earth for 1 year.

It is not cheap. It costs us billions of dollars to build a new nuclear power plant. But they are pretty good in terms of how much carbon dioxide they put out.

we need to enact strong, near term targets for emissions reductions.

Now is the time to be bold and to go forward.

I am a strong advocate of expanding nuclear power as well.

In 2007, we passed the CAFE legislation, as you will recall.

We have the technology today to build a new coal plant that has minimal emissions of all of the conventional pollutants.

But we must not forget the existing Clean Air Act where there is a lot of work to be done on the conventional pollutants.

We do not have to throw up our hands and say, gee, we have to choose between having a quality of life that protects our kids, that protects our forests, or giving up coal.

It is imperative that we minimize as greatly as we can any civilian casualties.

Thank you for the work you have done with your lives to date.