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"A comprehensive, collaborative elections resource."
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Governor Pete Wilson Inaugural Address January 7, 1991
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| Parent | Parent Candidate |
| Contributor | Thomas Walker |
| Post Date | , 12:am |
| Description | A PATH TO PREVENTION: EXPANDING HORIZONS, CHANGING YOUNG LIVES
We meet today to celebrate the people's sovereignty, as old as California itself, and to confront their problems, as fresh as the morning headlines.
It is a day for symbolism, and a day for substance. For long after the rituals of inauguration fade from memory, each of us will be held accountable for the oath we take and the vision we offer.
I hope you will permit me a personal note on this very public occasion. A quarter of a century ago, I first climbed these steps, and with George Deukmejian, Willie Brown and David Roberti, proudly took my seat upon Ronald Reagan's inaugural platform. I'm proud and grateful to return today to give my own message. And I'm eager to undertake with those on this platform what I hope will be a journey of shared values, a common pursuit of uncommonly important goals.
We are a diverse assembly gathered in Capitol Park, a coat of many colors stitched together from a hundred countries and a thousand traditions.
We are Republicans and Democrats, Conservatives, Moderates and Liberals. Yet for all that might appear to divide us on the surface, core values of far greater importance unite us. We care about one another and about California. We share a passionate belief in the Democratic process and in the future of California.
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