Thomas A. Garrett: “Americans can define their own success. And I think that's the key to it.”

I believe to my very core that the best of the collective is achieved by empowering the individual.

I will consider myself a historian and some lessons are written large on the pages of history, if we are only willing to listen.

I am prepared to close if the gentlewoman from Oregon would like to conclude her remarks.

These promises of fairness manifest themselves in the uniform distribution of poverty and suffering.