A time of historic change is no time for recklessness.

People must be free to work, to save, to own their own home, to take risks, to invest in each other and, in essence, to control their own lives.

If you have a plan, we want to hear it. Tell your community leaders, your local officials, your governor, and your team in Washington. Believe me, your ideas count. An individual can make a difference.

We know what works: freedom works. We know what's right: freedom is right. We know how to secure a more and just and prosperous life for man on earth: through free markets, free speech, free elections and the exercise of free will unhampered by the state.

I want a kinder, gentler nation.

At Odessa we became Texans, and proud of it.

Atheists are not Americans.