For the first time, preventing nuclear proliferation and nuclear terrorism is now at the top of America's nuclear agenda.

We can choose a future where we export more products and outsource fewer jobs. After a decade that was defined by what we bought and borrowed, we're getting back to basics, and doing what America has always done best: We're making things again.

Unemployment is low, incomes are up, poverty is down - and that's going to be a lasting change.

We may never understand what leads anybody to terrorize their fellow human beings. Such violence, such evil is senseless. It's beyond reason.

I am convinced that whenever we exaggerate or demonize, oversimplify or overstate our case, we lose. Whenever we dumb down the political debate, we lose. For it's precisely the pursuit of ideological purity, the rigid orthodoxy and the sheer predictability of our current political debate, that keeps us from finding new ways to meet the challenges we face.

We must educate our children to become like young Egyptian people.

The first thing I'd do as president is sign the Freedom of Choice Act.