I am an American. I love this country.
Breastroke is an athletic event, butterfly is a political statement.
Democrats love employees, it's employers they hate.
A commencement is a time of joy. It is also a time of melancholy. But then again, so is life.
We are a continuum. Just as we reach back to our ancestors for our fundamental values, so we, as guardians of that legacy, must reach ahead to our children and their children. And we do so with a sense of sacredness in that reaching.
You are Americans. You love this country. Together we are entrusted with the principles that represent mankind's greatest political and social achievement.