When you give a speech you don't go through a laundry list, you talk about the things that you think are important.

When the president of Iran Ahmadinejad says that our debt makes America not a great country, that's a frightening thing.

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.

When there are elections, people tend to vote for peace. They don't vote for war. So Americans want to promote those principles around the world.

The founders proscribed the establishment of a state religion, but they did not countenance the elimination of religion from the public square. We are a nation 'Under God' and in God, we do indeed trust.

I'm sorry, there was an effort on the part of the president to have a status of forces agreement, and I concurred in that, and said that we should have some number of troops that stayed on. That was something I concurred with.

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