We need to stop apologizing for celebrating life. We need to stop apologizing for wanting to protect an individual's right to build a business.

Spreading the wealth punishes success while setting America on course for a greater dependency on government.

And I think most people in this country want to see a president that's got the courage to say we're going to cut the tax burden, and reduce the regulatory climate, and we're going to get Americans working.

It is up to us, to this present generation of Americans, to take a stand for freedom, to send a message to Washington that we're taking our future back from the grips of central planners who would control our healthcare, who would spend our treasure, who downgrade our future and micro-manage our lives.

I think every program needs to stand the sunshine of righteous scrutiny. Whether it's Social Security, whether it's Medicaid, whether it's Medicare.

Those jobs flee other states because of factors like excessive taxation, punitive regulation and frivolous lawsuits.

And I have a message for the liberals and the defenders of the status quo: we're just getting started.