01/01/1996
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"I know that our historic partnership of nations is a rising Sun and that its ascendance will bring a more stable, more democratic, more peaceful, more unified future for all of us who live on both sid..."
"I think that it's not because we're not patriotic, but I think a lot of the basic patriotic elements of America—that is, the things that make us go—we do tend to take for granted."
"They understood that we are all imperfect, but society is, nonetheless, improvable."
"I hope that that will always be the case."