We're deeply grateful that the celebrations were both jubilant and peaceful, here and all around the world.

When James Lee Witt ran FEMA, because he had been both a local official and a federal official, he was always there early, and we always thought about that,

There has never been a time like this, in which we have the power to create knowledge and the power to create havoc, and both these powers rest in the same hands.

But both of us came out of environments with a disproportionate number of poor people.

Africa's future should be viewed as it is, in the hands of Africans, both the people and their leaders.