We are very grateful for the vital contributions Germany has made to this fight, training local forces in Iraq, sharing intelligence providing reconnaissance aircraft including the recent deployment of additional NATO AWACS.

A nation cannot prosper long when it favors only the prosperous.

We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.

America is a country of strong families and strong values. My life's been blessed by both.

I found this national debt doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office.

Never give up on your dreams.

If poverty is a disease that infects the entire community in the form of unemployment and violence, failing schools and broken homes, then we can't just treat those symptoms in isolation . We have to heal that entire community.