This Memorial Day should remind us of the greatness that past generations of Americans achieved from Valley Forge to Vietnam, and it should inspire us with the determination to keep America great and free by keeping America safe and strong in our own time, a time of unique destiny and opportunity for our Nation.

We will establish a new system that makes high-quality health care available to every American in a dignified manner and at a price he can afford.

Government has the responsibility to provide the climate in which Americans, all Americans, have an opportunity for good jobs; and not only for good jobs, but an opportunity if they have the ability and the desire, to be owners and managers, to have a piece of the action, because if they have a piece of the action, then they believe in the system rather than fighting against it.

Well, I'm not a crook.

If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished.

If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.

The important thing is that we maintain plausible deniability.