It's essential for a president to show strength from the very beginning, to make it very clear what is acceptable and not acceptable.

Together we will build an America where hope is a new job with a paycheck, not a faded word on an old bumper sticker.

I know what it's like to start a business. I know how extra ordinarily difficult it is to build something from nothing. I know how government kills jobs and, yes, I know how it can help from time- to-time.

And that's how it is in America. We look to our communities, our faiths, our families for our joy, our support, in good times and bad. It is both how we live our lives and why we live our lives.

I should tell my story. I'm also unemployed ... I'm networking. I have my sight on a particular job.

But in the business I had, we invested in over 100 different businesses and net-net, taking out the ones where we lost jobs and those that we added, those businesses have now added over 100,000 jobs.

What we have said and - and - and with which I concur is that we should use every diplomatic and political vehicle that's available to us to keep Iran from becoming a nuclear capability state.