04/22/1997
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"I would discourage the American people from overreacting to this."
"The great challenge of your generation is to prove that every person here in this great land can live up to the fullest of their God-given capacity."
"If that is so, if that is true, my fellow Americans, and if you believe it, it must therefore follow that each of us has an obligation to serve."
"National service will be America at its best, building community, offering opportunity, and rewarding responsibility."