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This year, in this election, we are called to reaffirm our values and our commitments, to hold them against a hard reality and see how we are measuring up, to the legacy of our forbearers, and the promise of future generations. E pluribus unum. I was not raised in a particularly religious household. These are not whiners. That promise is our greatest inheritance. The United States has been one of the greatest sources of progress that the world has ever known.
But she didn't. You don't defeat a terrorist network that operates in eighty countries by occupying Iraq.
It's that folks are hungry for change - they're hungry for something new. Or, at this moment, in this election, we can come together and say, "Not this time." This time we want to talk about the crumbling schools that are stealing the future of black children and white children and Asian children and Hispanic children and Native American children. As the Holy Koran tells us, "Be conscious of God and speak always the truth." That is what I will try to do - to speak the truth as best I can, humbled by the task before us, and firm in my belief that the interests we share as human beings are far more powerful than the forces that drive us apart.
I don't know what Bible they're reading, but it doesn't jibe with my version. They all have different stories and reasons. For we have learned from recent experience that when a financial system weakens in one country, prosperity is hurt everywhere. That is the world we seek.
Our conscience cannot rest until we not only secure our borders, but give the 12 million undocumented immigrants in this country a chance to earn their citizenship by paying a fine and waiting in line behind all those who came here legally. I will end this war in Iraq responsibly, and finish the fight against al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan. I will build new partnerships to defeat the threats of the 21st century: terrorism and nuclear proliferation; poverty and genocide; climate change and disease. The situation in Afghanistan demonstrates America's goals, and our need to work together.
Thank you. And may God's peace be upon you.