We have to find that imagination and fire it in the children all over America.
I want you to know that I am determined to work for the security of those Americans missing or held captive.
I am delighted to be here to honor this year's winners of the National Medal of the Arts and the Charles Frankel Prize.
I urge all Americans to join me in recognizing the role that country music has played in shaping our cultural heritage.
Country music is one of America's unique musical forms.
Public support for the arts and humanities remains essential today and for the generations to come.
Our mission from this day forward is to increase our strength, do our job, bring our soldiers out, and bring them home.
We started this mission for the right reasons, and we're going to finish it in the right way.
They are there to protect our troops and our bases.
I am committed to getting this job done in Somalia, not only quickly but also effectively.
If we leave them now, those embers will reignite into flames, and people will die again.
It is not our job to rebuild Somalia's society or even to create a political process that can allow Somalia's clans to live and work in peac...
Things get difficult, you don't cut and run.
Country music is about the American story.
A third of a million people had died of starvation and disease.
The human imagination is still the most powerful tool we have in moving forward as a civilization.
I am convinced we will have lived up to the responsibilities of American leadership in the world.
We have to recognize that we cannot leave now and still have all our troops present and accounted for.
