I woke up on May 15 1991 the day of my Barnard graduation and I said to myself 'By the end of today you will decide what you want to do with the rest of your life.'

I'm not retiring. I am graduating. Today is my graduation day. Retirement means that you'll just go ahead and live on your laurels and surf all day in Oceanside. It ain't going to happen.

Really the potential for first of all any college graduate today is enormously good. These are good times for anyone with a college degree today particularly African Americans. With a college degree today you really breach the unemployment rate.

It is virtually impossible to compete in today's global economy without a college degree.

Earlier today Arnold Schwarzenegger criticized the California school system calling it disastrous. Arnold says California's schools are so bad that its graduates are willing to vote for me.

If somebody invented cigarettes today the government would not legalize them.

I stand before you today because this vision of government as the engine of opportunity is what I believe in.

Today we must make a pact with each other to end this reckless conduct with the people's government.

The conservative movement today is like that tall ship with its proud captain: strong accomplished but veering off course into the dangerous and uncharted waters of big government republicanism.

We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.