This election is about you and people like you.

I have an obligation to make sure that all of our children have access to world-class education through the finest technology.

This will carry us forward.

I am proud that my Administration has made President Truman's commitment a reality.

And he said, 'I'm real grateful, but I just wish we could all be that way every day.'

I think the lesson that I have learned more than any other in 3 years and a few days as President is that when this country works together, we never lose.

We must continue to encourage the growth of high-wage industries, which will create the high-wage jobs of the future.

Education is the key to opportunity—and the education obtained as a child in school will no longer last a lifetime.

I hope that maybe the model of cooperation that we've seen in dealing with this flood can become a model for other kinds of cooperation in the future.

I will follow up on the suggestions that we have gotten.

On the ground, we are doing what needs to be done not only now, in the next few days, but for as long as it takes.

I know there's nothing that anyone, including the President, can say that will make these losses go away.

This is not just an emergency for a few days or a week.

Our country has been watching you and pulling for you and praying for you.

My Administration has already cut the budget deficit nearly in half.

This will pass, and it will get better, and we'll do everything we can to help.

I am firmly committed to addressing our economic challenges and enhancing economic security for all Americans.

Ours is the strongest and most competitive economy in the world.