We are not a nation that says 'don't ask, don't tell.' We are a nation that says 'out of many, we are one.'

The more we can encourage participation, I think the better off we are.

Because this is a country where everyone deserves the same freedom and opportunities to fulfill their dreams.

Sometimes when these kinds of things happen, it can seem a little bit too much to bear. But what I want the people of Louisiana know is that you're not alone on this. Even after the TV cameras leave, the whole country is going to continue to support you and help you until we get folks back in their homes and lives are rebuilt.

Moammar Gadhafi had more American blood on his hands than any individual other than Osama bin Laden.

To the extent that we've got a fiscal crisis right now, part of it is prompted by a bullheaded insistence on the part of the president, for example, that we should extend all of his tax cuts, make all of them permanent.

Our tears are not enough. Our words and our prayers are not enough. If we really want to honor these twelve men and women, if we really want to be a country where we can go to work and go to school and walk our streets free from senseless violence, without so many lives being stolen by a bullet from a gun, then we're gonna have to change. We're gonna have to change.