Join me in welcoming the next president of the United States, Paul Ryan.

Live for a purpose greater than yourself.

I'm outraged by the attacks on American diplomatic missions in Libya and Egypt and by the death of an American consulate worker in Benghazi. It's disgraceful that the Obama Administration's first response was not to condemn attacks on our diplomatic missions, but to sympathize with those who waged the attacks.

If you want a president who will make things better in the African-American community, you are looking at him.

George Herbert Walker Bush. He was a pretty-pretty great President and anything but.

It is time to acknowledge the extraordinary sacrifice of all of our veterans. While many Massachusetts soldiers served our nation in a period technically dubbed 'peacetime,' they restored American pride in the wake of Vietnam and helped bring a successful end to the Cold War. The service of these men and women was not without cost. There are countless stories of soldiers who served with great distinction only to be denied veteran status after returning home. Every man and woman who volunteered to serve this country should be treated with the same degree of respect, gratitude and dignity.

You had your turn madam, let me have mine ... Let me complete. I'm sorry, it's my turn.