We are a people in a quandary about the present. We are a people in search of our future. We are a people in search of a national community.

The citizens of America expect more. They deserve and they want more than a recital of problems.

The imperative is to define what is right and do it.

We must have an economy that does not force the migrant worker's child to miss school in order to earn...just so the family can eat. That is the moral bankruptcy that trickle-down economics is all about.

When do any of us ever do enough?

More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future.

I get from the soil and spirit of Texas the feeling that I, as an individual, can accomplish whatever I want to, and that there are no limits, that you can just keep going, just keep soaring. I like that spirit.