To young people: you have to stay encouraged.

[When I ordered 30,000 more troops into Afghanistan] that was the first time in which I looked out at a crowd of West Point graduates and knew that some of those might not come back because of that decision.

But we reject the belief that America must choose between caring for the generation that built this country and investing in the generation that will build its future.

We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old - and that's the criterion by which I'll be selecting my judges.

I have fought against spending. I have fought against special interests. I have fought for reform.

I think I'm able to reach a lot of folks, despite the fact that the conventional news media sometimes says, "You know, this speech is too long," or "It's too complicated," or "He needs to have better sound bites," or what have you.

The pyramids are one of those things that live up to the hype. They're elemental in ways that are hard to describe.