Recent action in Syria and Palestine also tell us that the awakening voices of democracy in those regions are occurring, and that those in that region are able to pursue it without being stifled by terrorists that are despotic.

We invaded Iraq to change a totalitarian, despotic regime, and we have been successful there.

There's no agreement to pay for this at all. Those of us who would like to pay for it are very much a minority within our caucus,

[After that, residents would be able to get different types of federal assistance,] in some cases outright grants, in some cases low-interest or no-interest loans, ... And those problems will be coordinated through both our office and the governor's office.

We know that freedom has a price. Democracy has a price. But maybe we paid a price that is higher than freedom and higher than democracy. There is always a price for freedom. But not this much.

There are people who wish to do us harm in the most heinous way. They want to kill Americans simply because they are Americans. They wish to destroy our culture and Nation because they don't like our freedoms, they don't like the fact that we are prosperous.