I know that some believe that voluntary prayer in schools should be restricted to a moment of silence. We already have the right to remain silent - we can take our Fifth Amendment.

While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.

Some months before I declared, I asked for a meeting and crossed the border to meet with the president of Mexico. I did not go with a plan. I went, as I said in my announcement address, to ask him his ideas - how we could make the border something other than a locale for a nine-foot fence.

Free enterprise has done more to reduce poverty than all the government programs dreamed up by Democrats.

Our natural, inalienable rights are now considered to be a dispensation from government, and freedom has never been so fragile, so close to slipping from our grasp as it is at this moment.

Our country is great because it is built on principles of self-reliance, opportunity, innovation, and compassion for others.

It's time that we recognized that ours was in truth a noble cause.