But at the end of the day, the circumstances of your life what you look like, where you come from, how much money you have, what you've got going on at home that's no excuse ... Where you are right now doesn't have to determine where you'll end up. No one's written your destiny for you. Here in America, you write your own destiny. You make your own future.

In Texas, we hold very dear to intrusions against our personal liberty. We fight very hard against that.

If you don't have a record to run on, you paint your opponent as someone to run from.

In America, we then made a commitment, particularly after World War II with the GI Bill, to massively expand our commitment to college education, and that meant we had more engineers and we had more scientists and that meant we had better technology, which meant that we were more productive and we could succeed in the global marketplace.

It's good to get fresh legs in [the White house]. I think that it refreshes our democracy.

State visits are often an opportunity for the United States to reaffirm our ties and friendship with our closest partners around the world.

We have to make sure America writes the rules of the global economy, and we should do it today while our economy is in the position of global strength, because if we don't write the rules for trade around the world, guess what: China will.