During that time my generation defeated totalitarianism. As a result, your world is poised for better tomorrows. I've spoken of the shining city all my political life. In my mind it was a tall, proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, windswept, God-blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace, a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity. And if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and heart to get here.
Excellence demands competition.
A leader, once convinced a particular course of action is the right one, must have the determination to stick with it and be undaunted when the going gets rough. It's hard when you're up to your armpits in alligators to remember you came here to drain the swamp. Some may try and tell us that this is the end of an era. But what they overlook is that in America, every day is a new beginning. For this is the land that has never become, but is always in the act of becoming.