We have a potentially volatile situation but we sort of live with it, and we kick the ball down the field and hope that ultimately, somehow, something will happen and resolve it.

It's not government that makes business successful. It's not government investments that makes businesses grow and hire people.

I believe that the faith heritage of this country is actually a very important part of America's culture.

We're all a nation that believes we're children of the same god.

Mom and Dad were married 64 years. And if you wondered what their secret was, you could have asked the local florist - because every day Dad gave Mom a rose, which he put on her bedside table. That's how she found out what happened on the day my father died - she went looking for him because that morning, there was no rose.

Twenty five years in business, including business with other nations, competing with companies across the world, has given me an understanding of what it is that makes America a good place to grow and add jobs, and why jobs leave America - why businesses decide to locate here, and why they decide to locate somewhere else.

Mr. President, you were elected to lead. You chose to follow. And now it's time for you to get out of the way.