Change into reported speech
1. “Forty-four Americans have now taken the presidential oath”, he said.
2. “Today I say to you that the challenges we face are real, they are serious and they are many”
3. “They will not be met easily or in a short span of time”
4. “On this day, we gather because we have chosen hope over fear, unity of purpose over conflict and discord”
5. “This is the journey we continue today”
6. “We must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking America.”
7. There is work to be done.
8. We will build the roads and bridges, the electric grids
9. The success of our economy has always depended not just on the size of our gross domestic product
10. “Our spirit is stronger and cannot be broken. You cannot outlast us and we will defeat you”
Change into direct speech
11. Our founding fathers have faced with perils that we could scarcely imagine
12. The nation couldn’t prosper long when it favored only the prosperous.
13. He reminded us to recall that earlier generations had faced down fascism and communism
14. Your people would judge us on what we could build, not what we destroyed.
15. Our challenges might be new, the instruments with which we met them might be new
16. He invited us to mark that day in remembrance of who we were and how far we had travelled.
17. 
Let us brave once more the
icy currents, and endure what storms may come
