I'm glad all of you could be here with us tonight to celebrate the tradition of sport in American life.

He is a remarkably gifted man.

You are welcome here, too, tonight.

There will be more said about Arthur Ashe tonight at Constitution Hall.

Muhammad Ali may be the most widely recognized athlete in the world.

I thank you for lending your dignity to this occasion and for your service to this country.

It is wonderful to be back in Maine.

For 5 months I've been fighting hard for a national economic strategy to build prosperity for all our people.

We're going to be able to save money by changing the way college loans are given out and provide them to students, without regard to income, at lower interest rates.

You symbolize the very thing that America has always been about and that we must today get back to if we're going to revitalize this great Nation.

Now, our opponents chant like a mantra; they say, 'Less tax, more cuts; less tax, more cuts.'

We cut virtually every part of the domestic, defense, and foreign aid budgets.

Let's don't say, 'I could have. I should have. I would have.' Let's say, 'We can. We will.'

Seventy-five percent of the taxes are paid by those in the upper 6 percent of income brackets.

You deserve that.

I'm glad to see them here today.

We are not trying to deal with these tough issues just to reduce the debt.

My job is to make your future worthy of the efforts that brought you here today.