We're entering our third century now, but it's wrong to judge our nation by its years. The calendar can't measure America because we were meant to be an endless experiment in freedom, with no limits to our reaches, no boundaries to what we can do, no end point to our hopes.

I don't know what I expected, but my first morning in the Oval Office had a surprising ring of familiarity to it. It reminded me a lot of my job as governor.

Our American tradition of neighbor helping neighbor has always been one of our greatest strengths and most noble traditions.

We must be cautious in claiming God is on our side. I think the real question we must answer is, are we on His side?

Where free unions and collective bargaining are forbidden, freedom is lost.

Our spirit is back, but we haven't reinstitutionalized it. We've got to do a better job of getting across that America is freedom - freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of enterprise. And freedom is special and rare. It's fragile; it needs production [protection].

The government is currently experiencing withdrawal symptoms, and we musn't feed the habit by injecting more tax dollars into it.