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I am delighted, excited, and deeply honored.

So many people have touched my heart and made an impact on my world. I'm thankful for every lesson and learning experience.

On the recollection of so many and great favours and blessings, I now, with a high sense of gratitude, presume to offer up my sincere thanks to the Almighty, the Creator and Preserver.

I felt very honored, and I knew that people would be watching very closely, and I felt it was very, very important that I do a good job.

I'm very humbled and honored. I'm very thankful to the Asian-American Community for all their support!

It is great happiness to be praised of them who are most praiseworthy.

I am both astonished and honored beyond expression to be chosen as your 2011 Christian Statesman of the Year.

It's wonderful to be grateful. To have that gratitude well out from deep within you and pour out in waves. Once you truly experience this, you will never want to give it up.

The confidence and respect shown by my countrymen in calling me to be the Chief Magistrate of a Republic holding a high rank among the nations of the earth have inspired me with feelings of the most profound gratitude.

Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.