We reserve our deepest respect and admiration for those who volunteer for service and give their lives to help keep our nation secure.

It's so critical that we make America once again the most attractive place in the world to start businesses, to build jobs, to grow the economy. And that's not going to happen by just hiring teachers.

At a time when nobody thought we'd ever see a new steel mill built in America, we took a chance and built one in a corn field in Indiana. Today Steel Dynamics is one of the largest steel producers in the United States.

America has not dictated to other nations. We have freed other nations from dictators.

We are a nation of immigrants. We are the children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren of the ones who wanted a better life, the driven ones, the ones who woke up at night hearing that voice telling them that life in that place called America could be better.

This country already has a leader who divides us with the bitter politics of envy. We have to offer an alternative vision.

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