I think they would be proud of the
progress we have made, but they would be shocked, at the time they were
compromising with one another--slave owners and abolitionists,
compromising to create this Republic that had never existed in an
expanse as big as the Thirteen Colonies geographically or with as many
people in the Thirteen Colonies geographically--for them to see this
about 240 years later from coast to coast, 330 million people, the
strongest military on the planet, the strongest economy on the planet,
a place where people want to come--just as my mother and her parents
came--to build opportunity for the next generation. That is incredibly
special in the history of humankind. As I think my colleague from
Florida was saying last night, we need to treat it with a little more
care. I am not just talking about the Senate. I am talking about our
responsibility to provide oversight for this administration. I am
talking about the importance for us to set an example for the children
I saw last Friday at the naturalization ceremony, just as they are
setting an example for us. None of us is going to be here forever. We have a lot of work to do.
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