This is a happy thing, but we've been working to get what we deserve since 1978. They took a snapshot of what everyone was getting at that time, but there was no rhyme or reason to it.

Americans deserve a better tomorrow, today.

To get to take them out was great. That's a snapshot they'll always have in their minds.

...to be loved, happy, not to settle for something less than you deserve.

The gulf region does not deserve to be treated as a laboratory for political opportunism or ideological experimentation,

The Gulf Coast region does not deserve to be treated as a laboratory for political opportunism or ideological experimentation. Now is the time for unity. It is a source of sorrow to our nation that so many were left behind as the waters rose. We must now commit that none will be left behind as the waters recede.