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

It's important that the United States not forget the lessons of September the 11th, 2001. I assure you, I'm not going to forget them.

Should any Iraqi officer or soldier receive an order from Saddam Hussein.... don't follow that order. Because if you choose to do so, when Iraq is liberated, you will be treated, tried and persecuted as a war criminal.

It is human choices that move events.

And this is my solemn pledge: I will work to build a single nation of justice and opportunity. I know this is in our reach because we are guided by a power larger than ourselves who creates us equal in His image.

Values matters well in a race.

People forget... that we structured it so that the government, or the people, would be repaid with a really good rate of return. And as it turns out, that aspect of TARP, that's what happened.