We don't believe that government has all the answers. We believe that government must respect the rights, property and opportunities of the people to whom we are accountable.

We will offer different ideas based on a better understanding of the challenges we face and the resolve to confront them with confidence in the strength and ideals of free people.

They will appeal to our dreams of a better future for ourselves and our families and our country. But they take from us more of the wealth we have earned to build those dreams, and assure us that government is better able than we are to…

My friends, we are the makers of history, not its victims.

Now, my friends, comes the hard part, and for America; the much bigger decision. We don't yet know for certain who will have the honor of being the Democratic Party's nominee for president. But we know where either of their candidates will…

I disagree with the Bush administration in not being more active in addressing the issue of climate change, whether it be through cap and trade, through tax incentives for R&D for green technologies and many other measures that I think…

I really don't know much about economics.

I disagree with the Bush administration in not being more active in addressing the issue of climate change, whether it be through cap and trade, through tax incentives for R&D for green technologies and many other measures I think need to…

Many of you have disagreed strongly with some positions I have taken in recent years. I understand that. I might not agree with it, but I respect it for the principled position it is.

But I do hope that, at some point, we would just calm down a little bit and see if there's areas that we can agree on for the good of the party and for the good of the country.

We will unite the party behind our conservative principles and move forward and win the general election in November.