I Couldn't Wait To Start

So Much Of What Passes For Public Life Consists Of Little More Than Candidates Without Ideas, Hiring Consultants Without Conviction, To Stage Campaigns Without Content. The Result, Increasingly, Is Elections Without Voters.

America Needed Recovery, Not Revenge. The Hate Had To Be Drained And The Healing Begun.

As I Rejected Amnesty, So I Reject Revenge. I Ask All Americans Who Ever Asked For Goodness And Mercy In Their Lives, Who Ever Sought Forgiveness For Their Trespasses, To Join In Rehabilitating All The Casualties Of The Tragic Conflict Of The Past.

The Veto Is A President's Constitutional Right, Given To Him By The Drafters Of The Constitution Because They Wanted It As A Checkagainst Irresponsible Congressional Action. The Veto Forces Congress To Take Another Look At Legislation That Has Been Passed. I Think This Is A Responsible Tool For A President Of The United States, And I Have Sought To Use It Responsibly.

I Remember As A Ranger The First Time I Stood Alone On Inspiration Point Over At Canyon Station Looking Out Over This Beautiful Land. I Thought To Myself How Lucky I Was That My Parents' And Grandparents' Generation Had The Vision And The Determination To Save It For Us. Now It Is Our Turn To Make Our Own Gift Outright To Those Who Will Come After Us, 15 Years, 40 Years, 100 Years From Now. I Want To Be As Faithful To My Grandchildren's Generation As Old Faithful Has Been To Ours. What Better Way Can We Add A New Dimension To Our Third Century Of Freedom?