I believe we can embark on a new age of reform in this country and an era of national renewal. An era that will reorder the relationship between citizen and government, that will make government again responsive to people, that will revitalize the values of family, work, and neighborhood and that will restore our private and independent social institutions. These institutions always have served as both buffer and bridge between the individual and the stateand these institutions, not government, are the real sources of our economic and social progress as a people. Many of us are unhappy about our worsening economic problems, about the constant crisis atmosphere in our foreign policy, about our diminishing prestige around the globe, about the weakness in our economy and national security that jeopardizes world peace, about our lack of strong, straight-forward leadership.Īnd many Americans today, just as they did 200 years ago, feel burdened, stifled and sometimes even oppressed by government that has grown too large, too bureaucratic, too wasteful, too unresponsive, too uncaring about people and their problems.Īmericans, who have always known that excessive bureaucracy is the enemy of excellence and compassion, want a change in public lifea change that makes government work for people. They seek a vision of a better America, a vision of society that frees the energies and ingenuity of our people while it extends compassion to the lonely, the desperate, and the forgotten.
feeling frustrated and perhaps even a little afraid. In thinking about these questions, many Americans seem to be wondering, searching. . When they have returned, all of us will be turning to the concerns that will determine the course of America in the next four years.Ī child born this year will begin his or her adult life in what will be the 21 st century. What kind of country, what kind of legacy will we leave to these young men and women who will live out Americas third century as a nation? I know that tonight the fate of Americas 52 hostages is very much on the minds of all of us. Like you, there is nothing I want more than their safe return-that they be reunited with their families after this long year of imprisonment.
and yet, the decisions we make tomorrow will determine our countrys course through what promises to be one of the most perilous decades in our history. He election will be over soon, autumn will become winter, this year will fade into next.
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