“Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement. ”

“I spoke to ears that refused to hear.”

“While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.”

“I've heard that hard work never killed anyone, but I say why take the chance?”

“I have no recollection of that ever happening.”

“If more government is the answer, then it was a really stupid question.”

“You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children’s children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done.”