A number of countries, including some who have loudly criticized the NSA, privately acknowledge that America has special responsibilities as the world's only superpower, that our intelligence capabilities are critical to meeting these responsibilities, and that they themselves have relied on the information we obtain to protect their own people.

This is our moment...while we breathe, we hope. And where we are met with cynicism and doubts and those who tell us that we can't, we will respond with that timeless creed that sums up the spirit of a people: Yes, we can.

Our country was born out of a desire to be free. And every day since, it's been protected by our men and women in uniform - people who believed so deeply in America, they were willing to give their lives for it.

I will cut investments in unproven missile defense systems.

If you work hard. And are responsible. You should be rewarded.

You have to exercise, or at some point you'll just break down.

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.'