You are the most powerful cultural force in the world.

I issued a number of denials to people I thought needed to hear them

Thomas Jefferson believed that to preserve the very foundations of our Nation, we would need dramatic change from time to time. Well, my fellow Americans, this is our time. Let us embrace it.

This will arguably be the third great revolution of America, if we can prove that we literally can live without having a dominant European culture.

I have news for the forces of greed and the defenders of the status quo: your time has come - and gone. It's time for change in America.

The more children see of violence, the more numb they are to the deadly consequences of violence. Now, video games like 'Mortal Kombat,' 'Killer Instinct,' and 'Doom,' the very game played obsessively by the two young men who ended so many lives in Littleton, make our children more active participants in simulated violence.

The era of big government is over.