Service is never a simple act; it's about sacrifice for others and about accomplishment for ourselves, about reaching out, one person to another, about all our choices gathered together as a country to reach across all our divides.

Poland should be strong and prosperous and independent and play its proper role as a great nation in the heart of Europe.

The Democrats just want to ram it down my ear with a victory

I have spoken of a thousand points of light, of all the community organizations that are spread like stars throughout the Nation, doing good.

I think 9/11 guaranteed that national security is going to be in the forefront of every election.

I have just repeated word for word the oath taken by George Washington 200 years ago, and the Bible on which I placed my hand is the Bible on which he placed his. It is right that the memory of Washington be with us today, not only because this is our Bicentennial Inauguration, but because Washington remains the Father of our Country.

Freedom and the power to choose should not be the privilege of wealth. They are the birthright of every American.