Harvard Commencement Speaker Congratulates and Thanks Graduates

So first, I bring you my felicitations to the graduates. No recent events can diminish what each of you has accomplished here. Graduates, I also want you to know you have the admiration and the good wishes of so many beyond Harvard. More people than you realize, more people than you realize are grateful. More people than you realize are grateful to Harvard for the example it has set by your willingness to look inward, to make painful and necessary changes, but then ultimately by your clarity in affirming and courageously defending the essential values of this university and indeed of this nation.