Brownback for President

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Dear Friend,
I am declaring today my candidacy for President of the United States.
Ours is a great nation and I make one pledge to you... to use our greatness for goodness

(...)And for goodness sakes, the last thing we need in America is to take God out of our public lives and institutions! We need to embrace our nation's motto "In God We Trust," not be ashamed of it. Search the record of history. To walk away from the Almighty is to embrace decline for a nation. To embrace Him leads to renewal…for individuals and for nations.
Something most people feel deeply in their hearts is the need for a culture of life—a culture that doesn't allow the strong to exploit the weak—a culture of compassion instead of a culture of convenience. Life is beautiful. We all know this. Let's start following our hearts and work to protect all innocent human life.
We are a nation at war. I just returned from Iraq and Afghanistan. Our troops—the finest, most courageous people our nation has to offer, are fighting for the cause of liberty in places that have never known her. It is a long fight. We will win. We cannot lose our will to win! We must win to redeem our troops' sacrifice. Let us resolve to have a bipartisan strategy for the war. We need unity here…to win over there. This is not the time for partisanship on any side. Lives—and our future—are at stake.
We will achieve these goals, not through government action, but by tapping into our innate goodness as a society and working together. This is how America has always achieved great goals.
At the end of the day, it comes back to the basics: faith, family, and freedom. America is great because she is good. That goodness is not based in Washington, or New York, or even Topeka. It is based in the hearts of the American people. This is a goodness whose Author is the Divine. A goodness that doesn't let us rest until our neighbor is at peace. A goodness that feels the chains of another rub on our own skin. A goodness from God that demands our vigilant action.
How much better we will be as we seek to live the Great Commandment to love God and one another.