I want to make sure everybody who has a job wants a job.

I don't like dynasty and legacy. But I think there's a period in the U.S. history where Bushes have been in the forefront.

The United States is the best and fairest and most decent nation on the face of the earth.

Time and again in this century, the political map of the world was transformed. And ineach instance a new world order came about through the advent of a new tyrant or the outbreak of a bloody global war, or its end.

Each of the patriots whom we remember on this day was first a beloved son or daughter, a brother or sister, or a spouse, friend, and neighbor.

At Odessa we became Texans, and proud of it.

We are a nation of communities... a brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky.