People make suggestions on what to say all the time. I'll give you an example; I don't read what's handed to me. People say ''Here, here's your speech, or here's an idea for a speech.'' They're changed. Trust me.

What people can dream, people can do.

All across America, we gather this week with the people we love to give thanks to God for the blessings in our lives.

I can hear you, the rest of the world can hear you and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.

For decades, the public school system failed too many children, so we passed the No Child Left Behind Act and demanded schools show results in return for money.

I didn't -- I swear I didn't -- get into politics to feather my nest or feather my friends' nests.

I don't want nations feeling like that they can bully ourselves and our allies. I want to have a ballistic defense system so that we can make the world more peaceful, and at the same time I want to reduce our own nuclear capacities to the level commiserate with keeping the peace.