With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I'm going to press on for equality. I'm going to press on for the sake of our children. I'm going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I am going to press on.

I’m convinced that a world in which girls are educated is a safer, more stable, more prosperous place.

I don't think we should ever accept the idea that someone can come along and take away our safety and our freedom.

Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.

We can make sure that people who don't have health insurance can buy into an insurance pool that gives them better bargaining power.

I believe that the free enterprise system is the greatest engine of prosperity the world's ever known.

The success of our economy has always depended not just on the size of our gross domestic product, but on the reach of our prosperity; on the ability to extend opportunity to every willing heart - not out of charity, but because it is the surest route to our common good.