Because this is a country where everybody should be able to pursue theirown measure of happiness and live their lives free from fear, no matter who you are, no matter who you love. (Applause.) That's got to be our priority.
We have for centuries strived to live up to our founding ideal, of a nation where all are free and equal and able to pursue theirown version of happiness.
Faced with a vast void that represented both their past and their future, Ruth and other young girls in the village and thousands of others around the country fashioned theirown alternate version of happiness in one pregnancy after another.
And what has made it possible to harness the incredible productive capacity of the American people -- the greatest economic force in the history of the world -- has been a free market where people can pursue their dreams, their goals and theirhappiness, and where you can take charge of your own destiny.