Biden: “Anything is possible in America. An engineer, poet, Cuban American, Richard Blanco returned to a poem he wrote from the second inaugural of Barack and me. A poem, One Today, it says: And always one moon like a silent drum tapping at every rooftop and every window, on every — of every county — country, excuse — let me start this over again.

[Chuckling]

I’m getting so intimidated by being in here.

[Laughter]

And always one moon like a silent drum tapping on every rooftop and every window, of one country — county — county — all of us — facing the stars, hope — a new constellation waiting for us to map it, waiting for us to name it — together. You know, that’s what we — you know, hope is — I was once asked by Xi Jinping to define America, for real. We were on the Tibet Plateau. I said possibilities, hope —“

[As Clint Eastwood once said, a man’s got to know his limitations. Although I think Eastwood could have done better here. — Ed]