...Started by missionaries in 1841, Punahou Academy had grown into a prestigious prep school, an incubator for island elites...It hadn't been easy to get me in, my grandparents told her (my mother); there was a long waiting list, and I was considered only because of the intervention of Gramps' boss, who was an alumnus (my first experience with affirmative action, it seems, had little to do with race).

The problem with all these tired excuses for inaction is that it suggests a fundamental lack of faith in American business and American ingenuity.

We ask for nothing more than the chance to blaze our own trail, and yet each of us is only here because somebody, somewhere, helped us find our path. That`s part of what makes America exceptional. We are family and we`ll do anything to help each other along the way.

For the sake of our security, our economy and our planet, we must have the courage and commitment to change.

No one is pro-abortion.

What I'm interested in doing after I get out of the presidency is to make sure that I'm working with that next generation so that they understand you can't just rely on inspiration.

We'll build new ties of trade and of commerce, culture and education that unleash the potential of the Iraqi people.