A Presidential Speech Is Always The Work

I Want People To Understand That, Look, We're In A Period Of Democratic Deficit, Democratic Recession. There Are Fewer Democracies In The World Today Than In 2005, And In Many Of The Countries That Are Still Technically Democracies, We're Seeing A Reduction In The Rule Of Law. And That's Especially True In Central Europe, But It's Also True Of Places Like South Africa, The Philippines.

Maybe It's True That People With Less Extreme Views Who Are Also Interested In Public Affairs Have Been Driven Out By A Marketplace That Doesn't Offer Them Anything Of The Tone They Want To Listen To.

Journalists Have To Do Their Job. And Journalists Have To Resist Emotionalism. You Have To Keep Your Cool And To Continue To Do Your Job Until You're Prevented.

You've Worked Hard All Your Life. You've Paid Medicare Taxes For Almost 30 Years. But Under The Republican Plan, Medicare Won't Be There For You. Instead Of Medicare As It Exists Now, Under The Republican Plan You'll Get A Voucher That Will Pay As Little As Half Your Medicare Costs When You Turn 65—and As Little As A Quarter In Your 80s. And All So That Millionaires And Billionaires Can Have A Huge Tax Cut.

People Who Want To Wage Cultural Wars Ought To Keep In Mind That Cultural Views Often Don't Move At All For A Very Long Time, But When They Move They Can Move Very Fast.