Islam is a vibrant faith. Millions of our fellow citizens are Muslim. We respect the faith. We honor its traditions. Our enemy does not. Our enemy doesn't follow the great traditions of Islam. They've hijacked a great religion.

I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together.

Too many of our children cannot read. Reading is the building block, and it must be the foundation for education reform.

If you're a poor worker - this is for new workers coming into the workplace - your benefits will increase at the current rate of increase. If you're a wealthier worker, your benefits would increase at the rate of inflation. And those changes would affect positively the unfunded liabilities inherent in Social Security.

That's really the fundamental question we face here in the beginning of this 21st century is whether or not we believe as a nation and others believe it is possible to defeat this ideology.

I believe that people whose skins aren't necessarily - are a different color than white can self-govern.

All of us here today understand this: We do not fight Islam, we fight against evil.