Biden Announcement for Presidency on June 9, 1987 in Wilmington, Delaware.
“I run for President because I believe the 1988 election, at its heart, can be reduced to a fundamental choice between two paths to our future; the easy path, in which we consolidate our current comfort and a quick and false prosperity by consuming our children's future; and another, more difficult path, that builds a more genuine prosperity for ourselves, while guaranteeing to our children their birthright. If we choose the easy path, raiding our nation's stores, and devouring the seed corn of our children, we will deliver to them a lesser America, the fading shadow of a dimming promise.
“We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society -- for nothing suffocates the promise of America more than unbounded cynicism and indifference. We must reclaim the tradition of community in our society. We must reassert the oneness of America. America has been and must once again be a seamless web of caring and community...I am absolutely convinced that this generation is poised to respond to this challenge. And for my part, this is the issue upon which I will stake my candidacy.”
