What we need are critical lovers of America - patriots who express their faith in their country by working to improve it.
What you do, what each of us does, has an effect on the country, the state, the nation, and the world.
We cannot use a double standard for measuring our own and other people's policies. Our demands for democratic practices in other lands will be no more effective than the guarantees of those practiced in our own country.
You cannot tell a poor boy from a small country town on the plains of South Dakota who has had the opportunity to be a teacher, a mayor, a senator, and a vice president, that America is not a nation of promise.
