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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
If we are to build grassroots respect for the institutions and processes that constitute democracy, the state must treat its citizens as real citizens rather than as subjects.
We want a state wise in its contemplation - just in its actions - and moderate in the reach of government into our lives.
I will commit myself to making this state an even greater place to live, work and raise a family. I intend to reach out from border to border to hear first-hand from our citizens about their thoughts, concerns and ideas for our state.
We are taking the steps necessary to be ready to send whatever assistance is requested of us, and we are preparing to receive citizens who seek refuge in our state.
For you, the state is an entity with purposes of its own that the people can be required to serve. For us the word is only a label for the arrangements by which we the people delegate to some among us responsibility for things that concern us in common.
We need to protect the sovereignty of our nation, and we need to protect the security of our people here in the country.
The state must be the first to be organized and totally committed to serving the interests of the people.
We have to allow people in the states to make their own decisions, to get government agencies out of the way and let local people make decisions about what's best for them.
We're not the States of America; we're the United States of America. If states don't get what they need, we're not going to have a successful plan, period.