America is hope. It is compassion. It is excellence. It is valor.

America is the sum of all our journeys as we search for our national community and our national culture.

I want to deploy the leadership to meet the challenges that face us and to restore America's greatness.

It was a myth that's often perpetuated at commencement that holds that only hope and promise lie beyond the halls of academe. Don't worry, be happy. Everything is fine.

Our country is a place where hope can be born and great companies, organizations and non-profits can spring up from an idea birthed on the back of a coffee-shop napkin.

Let's try winning and see what it feels like. If we don't like it, we can go back to our traditions.