If we can keep America ahead of the curves and live together as one country, the best days of this country are still out there.

The biggest challenge we face is to embrace our diversity, celebrate our diversity, respect our differences.

If we think about the future instead of the past, and change and not the status quo, and unity instead of division, and what helps everybody instead of what helps a few people, we are highly likely to make the right decision.

The American dream for everybody willing to work for it; America leading the world for peace and freedom and security and prosperity; America coming together as one America—that's what I want.

We're still bound together as one America.

Forty years later, we know that we all benefit— all of us—when we learn together, work together, and come together.

I think we have got an enormous opportunity here to do great things together.

We should all be repairers of the breach.

I'm proud of that, perhaps proudest of all that we have rebuked the people who want to divide us as a nation.

I think people know deep down inside, we've got to go forward together.

Together we will see to it that our people and our Nation are prepared for the 21st century.

Let us resolve to work together, one Nation under God, to build a bridge of hope and renewal to a new American century.

I think the President has shown particular leadership in using this as an opportunity to bring people together.

We cannot walk alone.

My greatest hope is that we as Americans will continue to find strength in our diversity.

This memorial will stand as a lasting tribute to what Americans can achieve when they work together.

I ask each American to work with me to usher in a new era of hope, reconciliation, and fellowship among all our people—rich and poor, young and old, and men and women of every race.

We need our artists, our writers, our thinkers more than ever to help us find that common thread that is woven through all of our lives.