ke a prophet of old, he told of his dream that one day america would rise up and treat all its citizens as equals before the law and in the heart. martin luther king s dream was the american dream. his quest is our quest: the ceaseless striving to live out our true creed. our history has been built on such dreams and labors. and by our dreams and labors
we will redeem the promise of america in the 21st century.
to that effort i pledge all my strength and every power of my office. i ask the members of congress here to join in that pledge. the american people returned to office a president of one party and a congress of another. surely, they did not do this to advance the politics of petty bick
ering and extreme partisanship they plainly deplore. (applause.) no, they call on us instead to be repairers of the breach, and to move on with america s mission.
america demands and deserves big things from us -- and nothing big ever came from being small. (applause.) let us remember the timeless wisdom of cardinal bernardin, when facing the end of his own life. he said: "it is wrong to waste the precious gift of time, on acrimony and division."
fellow citizens, we must not waste the precious gift of this time. for all of us are on that same journey of our lives, and our journey, too, will come to an end. but the journey of our america must go on.
and so, my fel
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