And what's interesting, and I don't think a lot of Americans understand this fact, is that One - most new jobs are created by small businesses; Two - most small businesses pay tax at the individual income tax, or many small businesses pay tax there.

Great tragedy has come to us and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are.

America must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof, the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.

There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress.

I will never turn Medicare into a voucher. No American should ever have to spend their golden years at the mercy of insurance companies. They should retire with the care and dignity they have earned.

I am proud to be an American. Because an American can eat anything on the face of this earth as long as he has two pieces of bread.

Some day following the example of the United States of America there will be a United States of Europe.

In the United States I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.

I'm a black American, I am proud of my race. I am proud of who I am. I have a lot of pride and dignity.

'Smart power' is the use of American power in ways that would help prevent and resolve conflict - not just send our military in.

Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are, and that is what always upsets the foreigner who deals with them; they are so friendly, how can they be so suspicious; they are so suspicious, how can they be so friendly; but they just are.

America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead they overlap and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.

An American cannot converse, but he can discuss, and his talk falls into a dissertation. He speaks to you as if he was addressing a meeting, and if he should chance to become warm in the discussion he will say "Gentlemen" to the person with whom he is conversing.

Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.

The United States and our allies are determined: we refuse to live in the shadow of this ultimate danger.

The America we all know has been a story of the many becoming one, uniting to preserve liberty, uniting to build the greatest economy in the world, uniting to save the world from unspeakable darkness.

America has tossed its cap over the wall of space.

Alien - an American sovereign in his probationary state.

And this President wakes up every morning, looks out across America and is proud to announce 'It could be worse.' It could be worse? Is that what it means to be an American? It could be worse? Of course not. What defines us as Americans is our unwavering conviction that we know it must be better.

After four years of getting the run-around, America needs a turnaround, and the man for the job is Governor Mitt Romney.

Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.

In America the President reigns for four years and Journalism governs forever and ever.

As long as I live I will never forget that day 21 years ago when I raised my hand and took the oath of citizenship. Do you know how proud I was? I was so proud that I walked around with an American flag around my shoulders all day long.

I cannot understand how the education of this United States of America has been fooled, time and time again. Either make it separate but equal, or integrate, therefore it will be equal. And it has been separate and unequal.

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

I am mortified to be told that in the United States of America the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.

The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.

We should be too big to take offense, and too noble to give it.

I will begin my presidency with a jobs tour. President Obama began with an apology tour. America he said had dictated to other nations. No Mr. President America has freed other nations from dictators.

In America, sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it's a fact.

Fourth to assure every entrepreneur and every job creator that their investments in America will not vanish, as have those in Greece, we will cut the deficit and put America on track to a balanced budget.

President Barack Obama has stood watch over the greatest job loss in modern American history. And that, my friends, is one inconvenient truth that will haunt this President throughout history.

Central to America's rise to global leadership is our Judeo-Christian tradition with the vision of the goodness and possibilities of every human life.

And the American people are the greatest people in the world. What makes America the greatest nation in the world is the heart of the American people: hardworking innovative risk-taking God- loving family-oriented American people.

Now is the moment when we can stand up and say 'I'm an American. I make my destiny. And we deserve better! My children deserve better! My family deserves better. My country deserves better!' So here we stand. Americans have a choice.