We have the chance today to do more than ever before in our
history to make life better in America--to ensure better
education, better health, better housing, better transportation, a
cleaner environment--to restore respect for law, to make our
communities more livable--and to insure the God-given right of
every American to full and equal opportunity.
Because the range of our needs is so great--because the reach of
our opportunities is so great--let us be bold in our determination
to meet those needs in new ways.
Just as building a structure of peace abroad has required turning
away from old policies that failed, so building a new era of
progress at home requires turning away from old policies that have
failed.
Abroad, the shift from old policies to new has not been a retreat
from our responsibilities, but a better way to peace.
And at home, the shift from old policies to new will not be a
retreat from our responsibilities, but a better way to progress.
Abroad and at home, the key to those new responsibilities lies in
the placing and the division of responsibility. We have lived too
long with the consequences of attempting to gather all power and
responsibility in Washington.
Abroad and at home, the time has come to turn away from the
condescending policies of paternalism--of "Washington knows best.
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