I'm going to spend a lot of time on Social Security. I enjoy it. I enjoy taking on the issue. I guess, it's the mother in me.

History is moving, and it will tend toward hope, or tend toward tragedy.

Americans are a free people, who know that freedom is the right of every person and the future of every nation. The liberty we prize is not America's gift to the world; it is God's gift to humanity.

If I answer questions every time you ask one, expectations would be high. And as you know, I like to keep expectations low.

I will always believe our nation's best days lie ahead.

Through centuries of struggle, Jews across the world have been witnesses not only against the crimes of men, but for faith in God and God alone. Theirs is a story of defiance and oppression, and patience in tribulation reaching back to the exodus and their exile. That story continued in the founding of the state of Israel. That story continues in the defense of the state of Israel.

I have something else to ask you, to ask every American. I ask you to pray for this great nation.