A leader is someone who steps back from the entire system and tries to build a more collaborative, more innovative system that will work over the long term.

Over the long term, the only way we're going to raise wages, grow the economy, and improve American competitiveness is by investing in our people - especially their educations.

Over the long term, there will be many more billion-dollar technology companies than there are today.

In the same way we have a long-term plan for building roads, we have to have a long term plan to build transit.

One of my major objectives is to build a long-term enterprise, to build shareholder value over time.

We don't mature momentarily, but over the long-term.