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That citizens involved, and it's not a coincidence that he's making those points to progressives and others today, just a couple days after he has transformed his political presidential campaign into an organizing outfit now called organizing for action. so i think he is aiming for those far away fences for things you would like to see him do, chris, but it's going to happen. not just if he wants to do it, but if he can mobilize enough political support to try to get over some of that republican obstructionism. >> joan, the same question. did you see the beef today? terms of substantive accomp...

You and i as citizens have the power to set this country's course. you and i, as citizens, have the obligation to shape the debate of our time, not only with the votes we cast, but with the voices we list in defense of our most ancient value of enduring ideas. >> welcome back to "hardball," that was one of the memorable lines from the president's speech tonight. well, today, in the speech, the president gave a speech of entitlement to the middle class. he also made a historic reference to gay rights, first-time ever for a president. and he probably drove neocons crazy with the term sworn enemi...

>> why did he say it tonight? >> i think it's a pivotal point. i think he is going to go back to what he said in the first inaugural and during the first campaign about how it's time for us to put down the sword and figure out how we can help everyone pick up the polish here. and i think that's really what he wants to do with the foreign policy is to move it in a new direction. >> it means he's going back to cairo. the speech he gave in june, 200 9d, he's going back to cairo. >> let's talk about that. let me talk about this. i think what i'm hearing from robin right, some real experts in the m...

But it also had a narrative thread. and what he did was embed his whole argument in the declaration of independence. and whether you're talking about climate change or rights for gay people, which he, uniquely, could make part of the civil rights movement or economic fairness, it all came back into we the people. i think it's the best inaugural address. i agree, most second inaugurals are terrible. i would ak cemeccept franklin roosevelt and in some sense, the president was echoing that when he talked about the shrinking few who do very well and the growing many who barely get by. but what is ...

Previous time, it was a call to go forward on the basis of these values, the values that we care about one another, that we work for one another, that we stand together and that there has to be fundamental fairness of the society. i think that's why the speech will endure. i think it's an indication of where we're going to go in the next few months. and i have to add one other thing, i know good lines when i hear them. instinctively and innately, i wish i had written them. >> i love your jealousy, thank you, bob schrumm. >> it's not jealousy, it's aberration. >> up next, a look back at the man...