02/17/2000
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu...
"This is a universally successful strategy."
"Well, tonight I thank all of you who have shaped that dialog, and I ask you to help to tell the American story in a new century."
"But on a serious note, think of the American creed: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that we are all created equal, endowed by God with the right to life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness."
"And most people in politics are either builders or wreckers."