Everywhere immigrants have enriched and strengthened the fabric of American life.
Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
The torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans, born in this century... unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today.
We can have faith in the future only if we have faith in ourselves.
There can be no progress if people have no faith in tomorrow.
History will never accept difficulties as an excuse.