Top 9 Inaugural Address Quotes From Presidents

Bill Clinton, 1993:

"Our democracy must be not only the envy of the world but the engine of our own renewal. There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America. And so today we pledge an end to the era of deadlock and drift, and a new season of American renewal has begun."

In his speech, Clinton also said, "My fellow citizens, today we celebrate the mystery of American renewal. This ceremony is held in the depth of winter, but by the words we speak and the faces we show the world, we force the spring, a spring reborn in the world's oldest democracy that brings forth the vision and courage to reinvent America. When our Founders boldly declared America's independence to the world and our purposes to the Almighty, they knew that America, to endure, would have to change; not change for change's sake but change to preserve America's ideals: life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness. Though we marched to the music of our time, our mission."

The nation was coming out of the Cold War era, and economic issues, and Clinton spent a lot of time in his speech talking about renewal and revitalization.

In this photo, Bill Clinton address a crowd in Little Rock, Arkansas in April, 2000. (Getty)