You can never underestimate the ability of the Democrats to wet their finger and hold it in the wind.

I believe the highest aspiration of man should be individual freedom and the development of the individual.

I know that for America there will always be a bright dawn ahead.

To do whatever needs to be done to preserve this last and greatest bastion of freedom.

When I've heard all I need to make a decision, I don't take a vote. I make a decision.

We don't need more politicians insisting we have deficits because you're not taxed enough. Those deficits ballooned from an economy that didn't grow enough and from 50 years of government spending too much.

You know, by the time you reach my age, you've made plenty of mistakes if you've lived your life properly. So you learn. You put things in perspective. You pull your energies together. You change. You go forward. My fellow Americans, I have a great deal that I want to accomplish with you and for you over the next two years. And, the Lord willing, that's exactly what I intend to do.