I really believe that you can. Not only do I think it is a part of public service to help young people find their way, just as professors had helped me find mine, but I've been very involved in K-12 education issues. I started a program back in 1992 called the Center for a New Generation, an afterschool enrichment program.

After all, when the world looks to America, they look to us because we are the most successful political and economic experiment in human history.

America's still a very, very powerful symbol and a very important place of leadership for the world.

It's bad policy to speculate on what you'll do if a plan fails when you're trying to make a plan work.

We needed to go back on the offense and offer clear leadership on Iraq.

But the truth of the matter is, we're an open society, we want to remain an open society, and there will continue to be vulnerability. That's why we have to meet the threats when they are not yet taking place on our territory and on our soil.

We need to fight protectionism with everything that we have because when there's a level playing field and when you have open markets and when free trade is flourishing, American workers, American farmers, Americans are going to benefit.