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We must create a state that responds to the citizens' needs, and we need citizens who feel committed to their state because that state serves the citizens.

These are people who haven't gone through the legal means to becoming citizens like our forefathers did. They want all the benefits but none of the responsibilities.

I want to take this opportunity to express, one more time, my deep sadness to those countrymen who feel, rightly, that they were victims of my government.

If we are to perpetuate the state, we must not only produce citizens, but good citizens - men and women of sound bodies, clear minds and clean souls.

There are lots of nations in the world or national peoples who don't yet have states. They're inside someone else's state and they want a state of their own.

I hate to confess that I would love to have all of my children in Washington - and at the same time, they've been all over the place, and my heart of hearts, I believe that freedom is wonderful.

Let me say this on a personal note. Without the United States of America, I would in all probably not be able to stand here before you today.

I appreciate the opportunity to continue to serve the people of our state.

I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.

I care more about the country than what happens to me. But we can't allow the law to become a political weapon or agree to scare people away from standing up for their rights, no matter how good the deal. I'm not going to be part of that.