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The problem that faces our country today, the last 30 years we have lived off the future, and the bill is coming due. So there cannot be anything that is not put on the table. There will not be one American that will not be called to sacrifice. Those that are more well-to-do will be called to sacrifice to a greater extent.

I've met so many people of my son's generation who think a sacrifice is when their satellite or Internet is out for a day and that the country owes them something. That old J.F.K. quote about 'what you can do for your country,' doesn't even seem to apply to so many people.

It is not sacrifice if you love what you're doing.

People want to make sacrifices but they don't want to be sacrificed.

The whole point of a sacrifice is that you give up something you never really wanted in the first place. People are doing it around you all the time. They give up their careers, say - or their beliefs - or sex.

If you choose to do something, then you shouldn't say it's a sacrifice, because nobody forced you to do it.

Sacrifice is going to war for your country. Sacrifice is a brave young man being blown up by a landmine in Afghanistan.

America needs young people to be inspired to choose sacrifice over greed.

With the power of conviction, there is no sacrifice.

You don't ask people to sacrifice their lives until the nation has debated and committed to the mission. It's immoral.