While might certainly does not make right, neither does right by itself make might.

We are committed to cleaning up the air and cleaning up the water. But we also are committed to a strong economy, and we are not going to allow the environmental issue to be used sometimes falsely and sometimes in a demagogic way basically to destroy the system-the industrial system that made this the great country it is.

Let us build bridges, my friends, build bridges to human dignity across that gulf that separates black America from white America.

But above all, what this Congress can be remembered for is opening the way to a new American revolutiona peaceful revolution in which power was turned back to the peoplein which government at all levels was refreshed and renewed and made truly responsive. This can be a revolution as profound, as far-reaching, as exciting as that first revolution almost 200 years agoand it can mean that just 5 years from now America will enter its third century as a young nation new in spirit, with all the vigor and the freshness with which it began its first century.

If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished.

My view is that one should not break up a winning combination.

Always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty.