Thank you, Governor. What a fantastic rally. Thank you all. Wall-to-wall people at Hope. This is beautiful. Thank you so very much. And may I thank your great Governor, John Engler, and salute your Lieutenant Governor, Connie Binsfeld…

Thank you for this fantastic rally. And may God bless the United States of America. Thank you very much. Note: The President spoke at 5:10 p.m. at Hope College.

And by opening up foreign markets, we will provide good jobs for our kids and our grandkids. You know, already the average export-related job pays 17 percent more than a traditional job. So if we want our sons and daughters of steelworkers…

You've got to ask, who's going to pay for all those bills, all the promises? And the answer is: not the rich guys. It's the cab drivers, the barbers, the beauticians, the construction workers. And I say it is time to help the middle class…

You see this new world, the new world today brings new challenges and also new opportunities. We are part of a global economy, and this is no time to hand the wheel to a novice to take a risk with the United States. When it comes to…

The buck does stop there.

We must take back our streets from the crackheads and the criminals.

We need to help the middle class, not sock it to them with more taxes.

We've got two fundamentally different philosophies of Government.

America needs a driver who knows the highway.

Thank you all. Thanks for that great rally. And thanks for the welcome back to Missouri. Thank you very, very much. Fantastic. Hey listen, I think you guys were--I am glad to be out of that tag-team match over there. I think with my dear…

I am proud that we stood up to the bully of Baghdad and led the world to saying no to aggression.