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Whether Our Ancestors Came Here On The Mayflower, On Slave Ships, Whether They Came To Ellis Island Or Lax In Los Angeles, Whether They Came Yesterday Or Walked This Land A Thousand Years Ago Our Great Challenge For The 21st Century Is To Find A Way To Be One America. We Can Meet All The Other Challenges If We Can Go Forward As One America.

Our Mission In This New Century Is Clear. For Good Or Ill, We Live In An Interdependent World. We Can't Escape Each Other. Therefore, We Have To Spend Our Lives Building A Global Community Of Shared Responsibilities, Shared Values, Shared Benefits.

More Than Any Other Nation On Earth, America Has Constantly Drawn Strength And Spirit From Wave After Wave Of Immigrants. In Each Generation, They Have Proved To Be The Most Restless, The Most Adventurous, The Most Innovative, The Most Industrious Of People. Bearing Different Memories, Honoring Different Heritages, They Have Strengthened Our Economy, Enriched Our Culture, Renewed Our Promise Of Freedom And Opportunity For All.

I Saw My Job [as President] As To Try To Move The World From An Unstable Condition Of Interdependence Toward More Integrated Cooperative World Community. Therefore, My Approach Was To Cooperate Wherever Possible And To Build Institutions Of Cooperation, An Expanded Nato, The World Trade Organization, The Summit Of The Americas, The Asian Pacific Leaders, All Those, The Coalition To Fight In Bosnia And Kosovo, To Cooperate Wherever Possible But To Act Alone If We Had To.

The Problem With Any Ideology Is That It Gives You The Answer Before You Examine The Evidence.