Our nation was not born in 2002.

I am reminded of what Mahatma Gandhi, the father of our nation, said

It is our Constitution that is our true wealth and the true guarantee of our nation s endurance.

The Caliph Ali Ibn Abi Talib said, Our strength lies in our differences.

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The Prime Minister of India, Mr. Manmohan Singh, has referred to youth as the building blocks of our nation.

Ukrainians recoil, in anger and horror, at the very idea of dividing the nation.

Our nation may be small, but our commitment to improving the well being of this region is anything but.

We are rebuilding our nation on the principles of human rights and equality, rather than on the mass graves and genocides of the past.

We wrote President Bush and his administration have embarked on a reckless and extreme course that endangers the long term economic health of our nation .

A few weeks ago, Burma s monks began to march and pray and spread loving kindness in an effort to solve our nation s problems peacefully.

The international community must contribute to the revival of our State and to stand by our side in our effort to rebuild our nation rather than indulging in trivialities.

Despite the disappointments that we have suffered, I have never been in any doubt as to the outcome of this crisis, for which our nation has already paid too high a price.

At the same time, President Bush has charged us with strengthening our national capacity in this area through better coordination of our nation's post conflict and stabilization efforts.

The epidemic's magnitude threatens the very existence of our nation and makes the fight to carry out the World Programme of Action for Youth all the more difficult, if not outright impossible.

In many instances, the football matched unearthed national rivalries.

In every major religion, a version of the following question is asked what does it profit us to gain wealth and power if we lose our moral values? In the past eight years, we have colluded with acts that jeopardized the very soul of our nation.

And yet, every time humiliation and sometimes even the blood of our nation s women make the headlines, I feel ashamed and wonder what needs to be done before Lebanese women, known for their strong character, take matters into their own hands.

An important impact, if global warming continues, will be on the breadbasket of our nation and the world, the Midwest and Great Plains, which are expected to become prone to extreme droughts, worse than the Dust Bowl, within just a few decades, if we let global warming continue.

Without our Constitution, America is just another world power made great by wealth and weapons instead of by values and convictions so we are at risk of collapse when our wealth and weapons fail us. It is our Constitution that is our true wealth and the true guarantee of our nation s endurance.

To all those who have wondered if America's beacon still burns as bright Tonight we proved once more that the true strength of our nation comes not from the might of our arms or the scale of our wealth, but from the enduring power of our ideals democracy, liberty, opportunity and unyielding hope.

President Bush has asked that Americans not play politics at this moment of terrible national disaster. But asking hard questions of our nation s leaders is exactly what democracy demands when the government s response to Hurricane Katrina is widely viewed as a national disgrace.