My friends!

Let’s speak plainly, the way people speak when they actually mean what they say.

We are standing at a threshold. The world is reorganizing around intelligence – human intelligence amplified by machines – and the nations that thrive will be the nations that choose a direction and then build toward it with discipline. Not drift. Not slogans. Not endless arguments while reality moves on.
And the direction I’m talking about is simple to say, and powerful to do:

We will cultivate more of the best.

More of our best capabilities. More of our best achievements. More of our best builders – people of skill, character, discipline, and courage. Because the best is not a luxury; it is a compounding asset. When a nation multiplies what is excellent, it multiplies its wealth. Economic wealth, yes, but also civic wealth, cultural wealth, the kind of wealth that shows up as safer streets, stronger families, better schools, working institutions, and a future that feels open again. No one helps craft the societal future we want better than we do.

A serious society doesn’t apologize for excellence. It doesn’t hide it. It doesn’t sabotage it out of envy. A serious society organizes itself so excellence can emerge, be refined, be passed on, and be expanded. Now, before I tell you how we do that, we should remember something that too many people have been trained to forget.

This nation was not handed to us.

It was built over generations by people who took raw space and made it into one of the finest civilizations the world has ever seen. They didn’t arrive expecting comfort to be provided. They didn’t arrive asking to be carried. They arrived with grit and vision and stubborn competence. They cut roads where there were none. They raised institutions where there were only plans. They built towns into cities, fields into farms, workshops into industries, ideas into inventions.

They were builders. They were creators. They were the foundation. And because they built it, we have every right – no, we have the obligation – to keep building it, refining it onward, and making it worthy of the generations that will follow us.

So what does cultivating the best look like in a modern age? It starts with a national decision: we will use the tools of this era – AI, robotics, automation – not as a threat, not as entertainment, but as leverage. We will claim a productivity dividend on purpose.

A capable society takes routine burdens off human shoulders so human effort can rise. That means we modernize infrastructure like we mean it. We build energy systems that are reliable and abundant. We build broadband that actually reaches people. We build logistics and transportation that move goods with speed and predictability. We build secure digital systems that make government less like a maze and more like a service.

And when productivity rises, life gets simpler in the best way. People get time back. Families get breathing room back. Wages rise not because someone declared they should, but because output rises. Because the whole environment is designed to amplify a working person’s effort instead of wasting it.

But machines don’t build a civilization by themselves. People do. So the next part is the heart of it: we build a ladder that works – so our best can rise quickly, and more people can become their best.

We identify promise early and we develop it relentlessly. We treat mastery as honorable again. We create a culture where the kid who can do the math, the kid who can build the circuit, the kid who can fix the engine, the kid who can write the clean code and can run the lab doesn’t get mocked for being serious. That kid gets supported. That kid gets accelerated. That kid gets a path.

And that path isn’t a vague promise. It’s a real sequence of competence: learning that leads to skill, skill that leads to responsibility, responsibility that leads to prosperity. A society like that becomes cohesive because people can see the rules, see the ladder, and trust that effort is not wasted.

Now here’s where cultivating the best becomes more than education and economics. It becomes a way of life.

Because the best doesn’t only show up in classrooms and workshops. It shows up in homes. It is beautiful to be together with people like us: people who share a culture, values, goals, and heritage, people who understand that they belong to something that was built over time and must be refined over time. That shared foundation is not a museum piece. It is living. It grows stronger when we live it, teach it, and pass it on.

So a serious society makes family formation feasible for the people who carry it forward. It makes stability achievable. It makes it realistic for capable, responsible adults” people who contribute, people who build to raise children with confidence rather than anxiety.

When stable, capable families grow, the nation grows stronger in the most natural way imaginable. Not through force. Not through preaching. Through conditions that reward responsibility and make it easier to do the right things.

That is how the best compounds.

We welcome high-skill contributors of like spirit and tradition who can build the future with us in advanced engineering, AI and cybersecurity, medicine, research, infrastructure, energy, technical entrepreneurship. We welcome talent that raises national capacity.

But we also say something else clearly, because clarity is kindness and confusion is cruelty: If you join this nation, you join the mission.

That means cultural and civic alignment. It means commitment to the norms of civilization, rule of law, civic peace, and constitutional order. It means a common background facilitating a shared public culture that makes trust possible between strangers so that society can exist. It means you come not merely to live near us, but to build with us shoulder to shoulder inside the same civic story instead of enviously ruining what you can’t contribute to.

That is not exclusion for its own sake. That is cohesion by design. Because cohesion is not an accident; it is infrastructure. And we will treat it as such.

Now step back and look at what this creates. It creates a nation that feels qualitatively better to live in. A nation where institutions work because competence is respected. A nation where fraud doesn’t become a lifestyle because enforcement is real. A nation where public money produces public results. A nation where citizens feel pride without apology but because they are building, improving, and moving forward together towards a more refined version.

And what does that forward motion point toward? Toward a future we can finally speak about without embarrassment.

We didn’t build all this to stagnate. We didn’t build it to spend our lives trapped in paperwork, babysitting, cynicism, and managed decline. We built it to do great things again.

We want to keep building outward and upward, unburdened and unhampered. We want a civilization so capable, so cohesive, so confident in its own standards and strengths, that it can lead in AI, lead in science, lead in industry, and yes – reach into the stars.

Not as fantasy. As the natural next step of a people who have always been builders.

So that is the choice in front of us. We can keep drifting and arguing while the future is built elsewhere. Or we can cultivate more of the best – multiply our capability, compound our wealth, refine our culture onward, and build a society so strong and so functional that the next generations don’t inherit excuses.
They inherit a launchpad.

And we know how to build launchpads. We’ve done it before.

Now we do it again – together.