We need a president and a Congress that will pick up the whip the Founding Fathers left in Article 3 of the Constitution, to heard the justices back into the narrow stalls to which they were first consigned by Hamilton and Madison. As our fathers threw off a tyranny of kings, let us throw off this tyranny of judges and let America be America again. Friends, ours is truly the best of times and the worst of times. With our miraculous advances in medicine, science and technology, none of us would want to go back to yesterday. My life has been spent in the great and good vocations of politics and journalism and government.
None commands the respect it once did.
All are today in disrepute. I cannot think of a time since Watergate so poisoned with rancor and hostility. And I don't know if any president can change that the way Ronald Reagan infused his times with that spirit of confidence and unabashed love of country for which he became so famous. America needs a government of national unity and reconciliation that draws from the best of all parties. And I promise you, I will create that kind of government.