I might not have been President if it hadn’t been for school music. Learning improves in school environments where there are comprehensive music programs.
We have a unique opportunity to unite America, urban and rural, coastal and midwestern, red and blue, under the banner of a truly unifying national effort. We can start right now.
We are a nation of immigrants. But we are also a nation of laws. It is wrong and ultimately self-defeating for a nation of immigrants to permit the kind of abuse of our immigration laws we have seen in recent years, and we must do more to stop it.
Our democracy must be not only the envy of the world but the engine of our own renewal. There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.
In the emerging global economy, everything is mobile: capital, factories, even entire industries. The only resource that’s really rooted in a nation–and the ultimate source of all its wealth–is its people.
Every tax cut I call for is targeted, it’s responsible and it is paid for within my balanced budget plan. My tax cuts will not undermine our economy. They will speed economic growth.
