If you had to pick a country into which to be born, a country where you had the greatest freedom and the greatest opportunity to go as high as your talents will take you--and I have seen most of the countries in the world--believe me, you would all pick the United States of America.
Remarks at Honor America Day Ceremonies in Huntsville, Alabama.
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