And the What will future Americans say we did in our brief time right here on earth.

Did we take risks?

Did we dare to defy expectations?

Did we challenge accepted wisdom and take on established systems?

I think I did, but we all did, and we're all doing it.

Or did we just go along with convention, swim downstream so easily with the curve.

Remember this.

Nothing worth doing ever, ever, ever came easy.

following your convictions means you must be willing to face criticism from those who

lack the same courage to do what is right and they know what is right

but they don't have the courage or the guts or the stamina to take it and to do it. In my short time in Washington, I've seen firsthand how the system is broken. A small group of failed voices who think

they know everything and understand everyone want to tell everybody else how to live and what to do and how to think.

But you aren't going to let other people tell you what you believe, especially when you know that you're right.

When the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, they pray.

When the founders wrote the Declaration of Independence,

they invoked our Creator four times.

Because in America, we don't worship government we worship God.

You have to do what you are. You have to do with your life. I've seen so many people.

They're forced through lots of reasons, sometimes including failure, to go down a path that they don't want to go down a path that they don't want to go down.

To go down a path that leads them to something that they don't love, that they don't enjoy.

You have to do what you love, or you most likely won't be very successful at it.

Remember, the president told you everything you need to know.

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