The President Is The Peoples Lobbyist.

Slumism Is The Pent-up Anger Of People Living On The Outside Of Affluence. Slumism Is Decay Of Structure And Deterioration Of The Human Spirit. Slumism Is A Virus Which Spreads Through The Body Politic. As Other "isms," It Breeds Disorder And Demagoguery And Hate.

We Live By Hope. We Do Not Ever Get All We Want When We Want It. But We Have To Believe That Someday, Somehow, Some Way, It Will Be Better And That We Can Make It So.

To Be Realistic Today Is To Be Visionary. To Be Realistic Is To Be Starry-eyed.

Fortunately, The Time Has Long Passed When People Liked To Regard The United States As Some Kind Of Melting Pot, Taking Men And Women From Every Part Of The World And Converting Them Into Standardized, Homogenized Americans. We Are, I Think, Much More Mature And Wise Today. Just As We Welcome A World Of Diversity, So We Glory In An America Of Diversity -- An America All The Richer For The Many Different And Distinctive Strands Of Which It Is Woven.

I Believe That Each Of Us Can Make A Difference. That What Is Wrong Can Be Made Right. That People Possess The Basic Wisdom And Goodness To Govern Themselves Without Conflict.