In our own lives, let each of us ask - not just what government will do for me, but what can I do for myself? Richard M

For its part, Government will listen. We will strive to listen in new ways / to the voices of quiet anguish, to voices that speak without words, the voices of the heart, to the injured voices, and the anxious voices, and the voices that have despaired of being heard.

The 1976 Bicentennial is not going to be invented in Washington, printed in triplicate by the Government Printing Office [and] mailed to you by the United States Postal Service.

Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.

There will be no whitewash in the White House.

We are all in it together. This is a war. We take a few shots and it will be over. We will give them a few shots and it will be over.