He legally and irrevocably assigned them and he receives no tax benefit from them,

I think Governor Bush was very effective at countering this notion that this tax plan is skewed to the rich.

I think we need a very, very serious effort, primarily through tax policy to provide incentives and encouragement for people to save and invest and expand their businesses and to create more jobs. The kind of thing we did in the early Reagan years, 30 years ago. I think that's essential.

We have become irrevocably involved with, and responsible for, each other.

We are still on that path, and irrevocably committed to it.

I think that freedom means freedom for everyone. As many of you know, one of my daughters is gay, and it is something we have lived with for a long time in our family. I think people ought to be free to enter into any kind of union they wish. Any kind of arrangement they wish.