I want you to know that I am determined to work for the security of those Americans missing or held captive.
Let us celebrate country music in our homes and towns across the United States.
The solution to Somalia's problems is not a military one, it is political.
We saved close to one million lives.
We have to find that imagination and fire it in the children all over America.
We need more armor, more air power, to ensure that our people are safe and that we can do our job.
The arts and humanities must remain a vital part of our lives as individuals and as a Nation.
Let us demonstrate to the world that when Americans take on a challenge, they do the job right.
Most Somalis are not hostile to us but grateful.
I am delighted to be here to honor this year's winners of the National Medal of the Arts and the Charles Frankel Prize.
Our mission from this day forward is to increase our strength, do our job, bring our soldiers out, and bring them home.