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He does not say health care or the economy. We will open centers of scientific excellence in Africa, the Middle East and Southeast Asia, and appoint new Science Envoys to collaborate on programs that develop new sources of energy, create green jobs, digitize records, clean water, and grow new crops.
They are moral problems, rooted in both societal indifference and individual callousness - in the imperfections of man. On one end of the spectrum, we've heard the implication that my candidacy is somehow an exercise in affirmative action; that it's based solely on the desire of wide-eyed liberals to purchase racial reconciliation on the cheap. But they have helped shape the political landscape for at least a generation. Ours is a promise that says government cannot solve all our problems, but what it should do is that which we cannot do for ourselves - protect us from harm and provide every child a decent education; keep our water clean and our toys safe; invest in new schools and new roads and new science and technology. I've seen it in the workers who would rather cut their hours back a day than see their friends lose their jobs, in the soldiers who re-enlist after losing a limb, in the good neighbors who take a stranger in when a hurricane strikes and the floodwaters rise. But if we choose to be bound by the past, we will never move forward.
The President vetoed a similar plan, but he doesn't have the last word, and we're going to keep at it, until we bring this war to an end. He does not say education or the war. If you don't have a record to run on, then you paint your opponent as someone people should run from.
"I'm here because of Ashley." By itself, that single moment of recognition between that young white girl and that old black man is not enough. She's the one who put off buying a new car or a new dress for herself so that I could have a better life. You can't truly stand up for Georgia when you've strained our oldest alliances. We are the party of Roosevelt. "And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back."
We're not going to agree on everything, but we can disagree without being disagreeable. But what my former pastor too often failed to understand is that embarking on a program of self-help also requires a belief that society can change. Because we reject the same thing that people of all faiths reject: the killing of innocent men, women, and children. Now is the time for Palestinians to focus on what they can build.
Thank you.