I urge all Americans to join me in recognizing the role that country music has played in shaping our cultural heritage.

I want you to know that I am determined to work for the security of those Americans missing or held captive.

Public support for the arts and humanities remains essential today and for the generations to come.

Most Somalis are not hostile to us but grateful.

We need more armor, more air power, to ensure that our people are safe and that we can do our job.

Let us celebrate country music in our homes and towns across the United States.

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 peace.

I am committed to getting this job done in Somalia, not only quickly but also effectively.

Our mission from this day forward is to increase our strength, do our job, bring our soldiers out, and bring them home.

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.

I hereby certify that continued production from the naval petroleum reserves is in the national interest.

We started this mission for the right reasons, and we're going to finish it in the right way.

We have to recognize that we cannot leave now and still have all our troops present and accounted for.

They are there to protect our troops and our bases.