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But we shouldn't use our humility as an excuse for inaction. For we have learned from recent experience that when a financial system weakens in one country, prosperity is hurt everywhere.
The people I meet - in small towns and big cities, in diners and office parks - they don't expect government to solve all their problems. Out of many, one. To the Joshua generation, these challenges seem momentous - and they are.
In that time, I've had the chance to talk with Americans all across this country. They're ready to turn the page on the old politics and the old policies - whether it's the war in Iraq or the health care crisis we're in, or a school system that's leaving too many kids behind despite the slogans. I believe that as hard as it will be, the change we need is coming. And when innocents in Bosnia and Darfur are slaughtered, that is a stain on our collective conscience. We would gladly bring every single one of our troops home if we could be confident that there were not violent extremists in Afghanistan and Pakistan determined to kill as many Americans as they possibly can.
And until we stop the genocide that's being carried out in Darfur as I speak, our conscience cannot rest. Denying that fact is baseless, ignorant, and hateful. This construction violates previous agreements and undermines efforts to achieve peace. All of us share this world for but a brief moment in time.
It will require a renewed sense of responsibility from each of us to recover what John F. "We cannot walk alone," the preacher cried.
Thank you. And may God's peace be upon you.