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A Shining City Is Perhaps All The President Sees From The Portico Of The White House And The Veranda Of His Ranch, Where Everyone Seems To Be Doing Well. But There's Another Part To The Shining City. In This Part Of The City There Are More Poor Than Ever, More Families In Trouble, More And More People Who Need Help But Can't Find It.

We Believe In A Government That Is Characterized By Fairness And Reasonableness, A Reasonableness That Goes Beyond Labels, That Doesn't Distort Or Promise To Do Things That We Know We Can't Do.

Most Of Us Have Achieved Levels Of Affluence And Comfort Unthought Of Two Generations Ago. We've Never Had It So Good, Most Of Us. Nor Have We Ever Complained So Bitterly About Our Problems.

If You Can Manipulate News, A Judge Can Manipulate The Law. A Smart Lawyer Can Keep A Killer Out Of Jail, A Smart Accountant Can Keep A Thief From Paying Taxes, A Smart Reporter Could Ruin Your Reputation - Unfairly.

I Watched A Small Man With Thick Calluses On Both Hands Work 15 And 16 Hours A Day. I Saw Him Once Literally Bleed From The Bottoms Of His Feet, A Man Who Came Here Uneducated, Alone, Unable To Speak The Language, Who Taught Me All I Needed To Know About Faith And Hard Work By The Simple Eloquence Of His Example.