It's opportunity. It's opportunity, not a check from government - it's opportunity that has always driven America and defined us as Americans.

I see an America where poverty is defeated by opportunity, not enabled by a government check.

I'm a big believer in getting money from where the money is, and the money is in Washington. I learned from running the Olympics that you can get money there to help build economic opportunities. We actually got over $410 million from the federal government; that is a huge increase over anything ever done before. We did that by going after every agency of government. That kind of creativity I want to bring to everything we do (in Massachusetts).

I will spend the next four years rebuilding the foundation of a opportunity society led by free people and free enterprises.

Dependency is death to initiative, to risk-taking and opportunity.