Today, if you look at financial systems around the globe, more than half the population of the world - out of six billion people, more than three billion - do not qualify to take out a loan from a bank. This is a shame.

To be here today is just beyond my wildest dreams.

While playing golf today I hit two good balls. I stepped on a rake.

Back then people closed their eyes and listened to music. Today there's a lot of images that go with the music. A lot of music is crap and it's all commercial and the images are all trying to sell the record.

I believe in living today. Not in yesterday, nor in tomorrow.

Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness.

People always underestimate the impact of technology. To give you an example: In the 1970s the frontier for offshore development was 200 meters, today it is 4,000 meters.

The starting point for energy security today as it has always been is diversification of supplies and sources.

One could see that what you are writing was that today's meeting with President Bill Clinton was going to be a disaster. Now, for the first time, I can tell you that you are a disaster.

As I stand here today and tell you about these, I am heavy with an awareness of the fact that I am in more than one sense a product of both the Chinese and Western cultures, in harmony and in conflict.

It is because of me that today the union government has sanctioned special funds for the development of Bihar.

Today in India there are all sections of people, as the BJP realized when the poor voted them out.

Artists today think of everything they do as a work of art. It is important to forget about what you are doing - then a work of art may happen.

In today's world, it is shortsighted to think that infectious diseases cannot cross borders. By allowing developing countries access to generic drugs, we not only help improve health in those nations, we also help ourselves control these debilitating and often deadly diseases.

It's time to look beyond the budget ax to assure access to health care for all. It's time to look for bipartisan solutions to the problems we can tackle today, and to work together for tomorrow - building a health care system that works for all Americans.