We believed we could prepare our kids for a more competitive world. And today, our younger students have earned the highest math and reading scores on record. Our high school graduation rate has hit an all-time high. And more Americans finish college than ever before.

Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking America.

When we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together.

We can give our intelligence and law enforcement community the powers they need to track down and take out terrorists without undermining our commitment to the rule of law, or our basic rights and liberties.

No country on Earth would tolerate missiles raining down on its citizens from outside its borders.

Each and every time, a new generation has risen up and done what’s needed to be done. Today we are called once more — and it is time for our generation to answer that call. For that is our unyielding faith — that in the face of impossible odds, people who love their country can change it.

We can't in any way criticize or at least indict or impeach administration [of Democratic presidents] for doing what they did.