Tonight I come to you as a citizen, returning to you in a role I've played most of my life. I join you here in Boston as a foot soldier in the fight for our future, as we nominate a true New England patriot for president, |
Try to remember that work cannot be the only thing in life. |
Turning away from trade would keep part of our global community forever on the bottom. |
under the right circumstances. |
virtually alone and before UN inspections were completed, with no real urgency, no evidence that there were weapons of mass destruction. |
We always thought faster was better than slower. |
We are engaged mainly in a struggle for the soul of this new century. Victory for our vision depends upon winning the fight we're in against terrorism, on spreading the benefits, and reducing the burdens of the modern world, on changes in poor nations themselves that will make progress possible, and finally, on developing a global level of consciousness about what our responsibilities to each other are and what our relationships ought to be. |
We are gaining ever more awe for the complexity, the beauty, the wonder of God's most divine and sacred gift. |
we are lazy or dumb. |
We are living in a world, where what we earn is a function of what we learn.. |
We are still experiencing the largest economic expansion of our history. Our economy is 50 percent bigger than it was eight years ago. |
We believe the limits of the human condition prevent anyone from having the absolute truth. That's the whole idea of this University, isn't it? |
We can defend ourselves against Iraq. It would be quick and easy. But, it's worth waiting a little while because it's not a military threat. |
We can honor Dr. King's sacrifice. We can help his children fulfill their legacy. ... Every one of us are in a way the children of Martin Luther and Coretta Scott King. |
We cannot allow them to have a hundred nuclear weapons. We cannot allow a country to, in effect, become the bomb-seller of the world because they're in a snit, and because they can't grow a crop. |