If we work at all our levels, we can help take America in the direction it must move.

Today we are very much seized with developing mechanisms that can do better in the future.

I think today's action is a good step in the right direction.

We have to build on these changes, not tear them down.

There is no other nation in the world so well positioned to move into the next century.

It is critical that people understand that there are clear choices between going forward and going back.

With all of my heart and soul, I believe America will continue to make the choice to keep moving forward.

We are moving in the right direction because we have played on America's strengths.

You can push forward; you can push fast forward if you want to—or you can push reverse.

Let's don't go backward.

I don't want us to go back.

But we still have a long way to go.

We are making progress.

Much of it has changed for the better.

Guided by the blessings of God, let us now go forward and give life to this declaration.

The fact is... there has been progress and it has come through this President's leadership.

We have too much at stake. We have too much work to do in building this new world.

You brought us into the modern age.