George Herbert Walker Bush - a thousand points of light

We are a nation of communities...a brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky. --George Herbert Walker Bush Acceptance speech, Republican National Convention, 1988, acutally written by Peggy Noonan I have spoken of a thousand points of light, of all the community organizations that are spread like stars throughout the Nation, doing good. We will work hand in hand, encouraging, sometimes leading, sometimes being led, rewarding. We will work on this in the White House, in the Cabinet agencies. I will go to the people and the programs that are the brighter points of light, and I will ask every member of my government to become involved. The old ideas are new again because they are not old, they are timeless: duty, sacrifice, commitment, and a patriotism that finds its expression in taking part and pitching in. --Inaugural Address of George Bush, FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 1989 speechwriter was probably Peggy Noonan