"I've spoken of the shining city all my political life, but I don't know if I ever quite communicated what I saw when I said it.

 

"But in my mind, it was a tall, proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, windswept, God-blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace...

 

"And if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here.

 

"That's how I saw it, and see it still."

--Ronald Reagan