One of the most promising ways to meet both our climate change and energy goals without harming consumers is to develop the next generation of technologies that will enable us to transform the way we produce and use energy in America.

The dangers of being too heavily dependent on foreign oil are eclipsed only by the long-term threat of climate change.

America must develop new forms of energy, new ways of using it.

The United States must free itself from dependence on foreign oil.

In order to equip the State Department with the tools that it needs to address today's challenges, we will need to invest additional resources in the Department.

We are willing to lead tough and principled diplomacy with the appropriate Iranian leader at a time and place of our choosing if--and only if--it can advance the interests of the United States.

Real pressure on Russia will not come from rhetoric alone--it will come from a unified transatlantic alliance.

Iran poses a serious threat to Israel, as demonstrated by its pursuit of nuclear weapons and support of Hezbollah and Hamas.

I look forward to working with them to see how they might engage diplomatically or otherwise to make that possible.

Iran has been the largest beneficiary of the policy failures in Iraq.

We have all also advocated the implementation of a no-fly zone as well as far more robust sanctions on the Government of Sudan.