I told you once that [our marriage] was like an adolescent's dream of what marriage should be like. That hasn't changed.

There can be no security anywhere in the free world if there is no fiscal and economic stability within the United States.

A troubled and afflicted mankind looks to us, pleading for us to keep our rendezvous with destiny; that we will uphold the principles of self-reliance, self-discipline, morality, and - above all - responsible liberty for every individual that we will become that shining city on a hill.

We believe faith and freedom must be our guiding stars, for they show us truth, they make us brave, give us hope, and leave us wiser than we were.

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

In a world wracked by hatred, economic crisis, and political tension, America remains mankind's best hope.

We're resolved tonight that young Americans will always see those Potomac lights, that they will always find here a city of hope in a country that's free so that when other generations look back at this conservative era in American politics and our time in power, they'll say of us that we did hold true to that dream of Joseph Winthrop and Joseph Warren, that we did keep faith with our God, that we did act worthy of ourselves, that we did protect and pass on lovingly that shining city on a hill.