If you look at things like the environment, obviously because of our climate and our widely dispersed population, we have challenges in terms of energy consumption and so on. We know technology is the way to do that. It's not to cut back our standard of living. It's not to cut back the strength of our economy. It's to do it through technology. There are so many things in our society that if we set out to do it that way, we're going to have the win-win. We'll have the environmental advantages, but we will be building our knowledge economy, because we have the capacity to build a knowledge economy other countries would envy.
On May 14th, 2009. See this statement in context.