Our policy is to attempt to restore democracy in Haiti.

We stand here tonight following the footsteps of wise men and women who faced the future with confidence.

I want to say just a few words.

I believe the American people have decided simply and finally they are sick and tired of living in fear.

I have heard Mario Cuomo talk about his father, his family. I wept, like you did, when Danny DeVito told that story.

You have helped people from every faith and background to live lives of genuine accomplishment.

No one knows whether they're true or not. They were allegations.

There are millions of people in this country today who will never even know who their great-grandparents were.

we must always be the architects of its renewal

we owe to this great country after 200 years is to make sure that 200 years from now this building will still be here

After a long struggle we are finally seeing signs of hope in our economy.

You know, it's funny to me how much one of you—Danny made a joke about being from the south of Italy and not being much different from being from the South.

The people finally thought they were going to get a shot at democracy, a chance to be embraced into the world community.

I want to thank the honorees for what they said and who they are.

we know in our minds and feel in our hearts the words that Thomas Jefferson spoke

The blockade always hurts the people first.

the greatest of all Presidential Inaugural Addresses, Abraham Lincoln gave us our charge for today

This issue should be above politics.