My father's generation gave to my generation a land of wealth and purpose and world economic dominance.
It was a myth that's often perpetuated at commencement that holds that only hope and promise lie beyond the halls of academe. Don't worry, be happy. Everything is fine.
Breastroke is an athletic event, butterfly is a political statement.
Our only weapons in this war of your lifetime are the weapons of the mind.
America is the sum of all our journeys as we search for our national community and our national culture.
The cold war is over; Japan won.
Seven and half years ago I began my own journey. For me and my family it was a time of adversity. But during that adversity I derived a deeper faith. And born out of that adversity was a commitment to devote myself to those people and to those issues that truly matter to me.
America is hope. It is compassion. It is excellence. It is valor.
