The connection between education and a healthy economy is critical.

In Matthew, chapter 6, verse 21, the scriptures teach us that where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. My friends, any man who aspires to be our president should keep both his treasure and his heart in the United States of America.

Barack Obama is betting on the American worker.

I want to talk about jobs and health care and pension security and what we're going to do to stop the brain drain in Ohio and make it possible for our young people to stay here and build a life in Ohio rather than in Pennsylvania or West Virginia or God knows where.

If Mitt Romney was Santa Claus, he would fire the reindeer and outsource the elves.

Our nation was built by pioneers - pioneers who accepted untold risks in pursuit of freedom, not by pioneers seeking offshore profits at the expense of American workers here at home.

Barack Obama is an economic patriot.

But all over Ohio - all over America - men and women are going back to work with the pride of building something stamped 'Made in America.'