For its part, Government will listen. We will strive to listen in new ways—to the voices of quiet anguish, to voices that speak without words, the voices of the heart, to the injured voices, and the anxious voices, and the voices that have despaired of being heard.
ATTRIBUTION:
Richard M. Nixon (1913–1995), U.S. Republican politician, president. first inaugural address, Jan. 20, 1969.
