America

If you want America to do good in the 21st century, America first must be good at home.

Vice President Gore and I have set a goal of connecting every classroom in America to the Internet.

Most Americans do know and admire the fact that we have the best military in the world.

Our investments in Africa, American investments in Africa, have earned a rate of return more than twice the rate of return earned by American investments the last 5 years in Europe, Asia, or Latin America.

As I have said many times, every problem in education in America has been solved somewhere, by somebody, in America.

The aging of America is going to double by 2030.

I wanted to be President—so that I could give young people like them the chance to make America a better place.

We have succeeded in the last 5 1/2 years in opening the doors of college to just about everybody in America.

We have to continue to press our agenda and to be for something that will excite America and bring hope.

America is better off today than it was 6 years ago, that there are ideas behind the changes that took place in this country, and they're good ideas.

No one in the world who really knows anything about it would seriously question the proposition that America has the finest system of higher education in the world.

America is going to have a balanced budget and a surplus.

Just because America's doing well, just because North Carolina's doing well, we have to think about the long-term challenges.

Who do you really trust to do more to build the best public schools in America for all of our children?

And I think today we can put aside a lot of our normal conflicts and just think about what America is at its best.

We have to prove that America can work for all Americans who are willing to work.

We shouldn't abandon a basic program that has been one of America's greatest successes.

We all believe that America will always be on a permanent mission to form a more perfect Union.