The fight for reform comes down to a simple goal: giving our citizens the confidence that government serves the people first and the people only.

You elected government officials to make decisions and it's about time they started making good ones

I ask you: turn a deaf ear to the special interests. Let politics stand down for a while. don't waste anytime thinking about future elections until we've done our jobs here.

Change makes us confront the great unknown. It introduces different things into our lives. Different places. Different ideas. Different people. It's all hard to accept at times, and change can often be a little scary. But if there's one fact that I've learned from raising a family, from running several businesses, from serving in Congress and now as Governor, it's that nothing has ever grown without changing.

If we are going to save this country, if we are going to reestablish that belief in God, it's up to us. If we don't do it, who will?

Drugs are the enemies of ambition and hope - and when we fight against drugs we are fighting for the future.

I have long believed that sacrifice is the pinnacle of patriotism.