"My generation grew up in a
nation of strong democratic values and broadly
shared prosperity. But both those values and
that shared prosperity have been slipping away.
"We can reverse that trend. Political and
economic reform turned the oligarchic America of
the Gilded Age, a place of vast inequality,
bigotry, and corruption, into the imperfect but
far better society of the postwar era. The
challenge now is to do again what the New Deal
did: to create institutions that will support
and sustain a decent society."
