I thank you very much for the Bleed Blood Blue Drive — that's hard for a guy from West Texas to say — Bleed Blood Blue Drive, in which you've encouraged 2,000 people to donate blood.

Where are my AmeriCorps buddies? There they are. Did you change shirts? You look too pretty. I was out there watching them help get rid of the invasees — invasive grasses and species that is threatening the watersheds and threatening the wetlands.

Gary [Lytton] is interested in not only, uhh, preserving beauty, he's interested in learning as much as possible to share the knowledge across our country. He's also pretty good about linin' up these volunteers and makin' sure they work. I said, does Gary keep you workin'? He said, you bet. That's good. That's called, uhh — that's called leadership. But Gary, thanks for, thanks for what you're doin'. He tells me that much of the property bought here is a result of — uhh — the bonding issue that Jeb pushed to make sure that much of the great state of Florida is, umm — prodected and preserved — uhh, thoo-out the years to come.

You see, it wasn't all that long ago that our tanks were in Baghdad. It may seem like a lot of time — there's a lot on our TV screens — but it wasn't all that long ago that the people got the first whiff of freedom.

It's good to welcome Mitt Romney back to the White House. Mitt, you did a fabulous job.

And then America's Paralympics overcame great odds to excel in their sports.

And Manuel Guerra contacted polio as an infant. This disease left him disabled in his left leg, but he pursued his love of hockey, and this year he and his teammates won the gold in sledge hockey.