○  名人演讲：a tale of two cities  ○

sanity of nuclear proliferation and the need for a nuclear freeze, if only to affirm the simple truth that peace is better than war because life is better than death.

we believe in firm but fair law and order. we believe proudly in the union movement. we believe in privacy for people, openness by government, we believe in civil rights, and we believe in human rights. we believe in a single fundamental idea that describes better than most textbooks and any speech that i could write what a proper government should be. the idea of family. mutuality. the sharing of benefits and burdens for the good of all. feeling one another's pain. sharing one another's blessings. reasonably, honestly, fairly - without respect to race, or sex, or geography or political affiliation.

we believe we must be the family of america, recognizing that at the heart of the matter we are bound one to another, that the problems of a retired school teacher in duluth are our problems. that the future of the child in buffalo is our future. that the struggle of a disabled man in boston to survive, and live decently, is our struggle. that the hunger of a woman in little rock is our hunger. that the failure anywhere to provide what reasonably we might, to avoid pain, is our failure.

now for 50 years, for 50 years we democrats created a better future for our children, using traditional democratic principles as a fixed beacon, giving us direction and purpose, but constantly innovating, adapting to new realities: roosevelt's alphabet programs; truman's nato and the gi bill of rights; kennedy's intelligent tax incentives and the alliance for progress; johnson's civil rights; carter's human rights and the nearly miraculous camp david peace accord.

democrats did it, democrats did it - and democrats can do it again. we can build a future that deals with our deficit. remember this, that 50 years of progress under our principles never cost us what the last four years of stagnation have. a

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