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Senator McCain likes to talk about judgment, but really, what does it say about your judgment when you think George Bush has been right more than ninety percent of the time? I don't know about you, but I'm not ready to take a ten percent chance on change. The question is whether we spend that time focused on what pushes us apart, or whether we commit ourselves to an effort - a sustained effort - to find common ground, to focus on the future we seek for our children, and to respect the dignity of all human beings.
I'd been inspired by the civil rights movement - by all the clear-eyed, straight-backed, courageous young people who'd boarded buses and traveled down South to march and sit at lunch counters, and lay down their lives in some cases for freedom. But it also means binding our particular grievances - for better health care, and better schools, and better jobs - to the larger aspirations of all Americans - the white woman struggling to break the glass ceiling, the white man whose been laid off, the immigrant trying to feed his family. And then another one. I'll help our auto companies re-tool, so that the fuel-efficient cars of the future are built right here in America. Tomorrow, I will visit Buchenwald, which was part of a network of camps where Jews were enslaved, tortured, shot and gassed to death by the Third Reich. Many more are simply skeptical that real change can occur.
And John Kerry believes that in a dangerous world war must be an option sometimes, but it should never be the first option. I will rebuild our military to meet future conflicts. The issues that I have described will not be easy to address.
From his heroic service to Vietnam, to his years as a prosecutor and lieutenant governor, through two decades in the United States Senate, he has devoted himself to this country. People are coming together around a simple truth - that we are all connected, that I am my brother's keeper; I am my sister's keeper. That is true genius of this nation. The challenges we face require tough choices, and Democrats as well as Republicans will need to cast off the worn-out ideas and politics of the past. For eighteen long months, you have stood up, one by one, and said enough to the politics of the past.
It's not enough, but it's helping. I've gone to some of the best schools in America and lived in one of the world's poorest nations. I am also proud to carry with me the goodwill of the American people, and a greeting of peace from Muslim communities in my country: assalaamu alaykum. The question, now, is not what Iran is against, but rather what future it wants to build. There is so much fear, so much mistrust.
Thank you, and God bless America.