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June 8, 2005

Thank you all. Please be seated. Thanks for coining. Thanks for the warm welcome. Thanks for the kind introduction, Gary, it's good to keep it in the old Texas family. [Laughter] All you other Texans who are here, make sure you behave yourself. [Laughter]

But I'm really honored to be here. I appreciate ABC; I appreciate your leadership. I appreciate the entrepreneurial spirit. I appreciate the fact that you're hiring people and making your communities better in which you live. I want to thank Carole Bionda and Kirk Pickerel and the board of directors for having me here.

You made a mistake, you should have invited Laura--[laughter]--to be your speaker, if you were looking for the A-team in our family. She's become quite the comedienne. [Laughter] I'm pleased to report, though, that she's doing great. I'm a lucky man when she said yes when I asked her to marry me. And I think the country is lucky to have her as the First Lady.

You know, I came to Washington to get some things done. This isn't my permanent home. I'm going to give it my all, put my energy into the job, and pour my soul into my work, and when time is up, I'm going to head back home. But I want it to be said that my administration came to Washington, DC, to solve problems. And when we had a problem that we square--that we dealt with it squarely. And we did it based upon principle. And we've been presented with some problems in this administration. One of them was a recession, because of an enemy attack and the downcycle in the economy.

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We had to deal with the recession. And at the heart of my decisionmaking was my understanding that most new jobs in America are created by small businesses, and therefore any relief, any decisions as to how to deal with the recession had to be good policy for small businesses. And the tax relief we passed made a difference for our small businesses here in America.

And the economic policy is working. I mean, after all, more people work in America today than ever before in our Nation's history. The unemployment rate is down to 5.1 percent. Small businesses are flourishing. The entrepreneurial spirit is strong. But there's more work to be done; there's more work to be done.




 
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