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My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. God is still speaking. I'll invest in early childhood education. Indeed, faith should bring us together.
King delivered his prayer for our country. Because for two hundred and thirty two years, at each moment when that promise was in jeopardy, ordinary men and women - students and soldiers, farmers and teachers, nurses and janitors - found the courage to keep it alive. As President, I will tap our natural gas reserves, invest in clean coal technology, and find ways to safely harness nuclear power.
More work to do for the workers I met in Galesburg, Ill., who are losing their union jobs at the Maytag plant that's moving to Mexico, and now are having to compete with their own children for jobs that pay seven bucks an hour. And it's around this time that some pastors I was working with came up to me and asked if I was a member of a church. But it is a story that has seared into my genetic makeup the idea that this nation is more than the sum of its parts - that out of many, we are truly one. I've seen it in Illinois, when we provided health care to more children and moved more families from welfare to work. Islam is not part of the problem in combating violent extremism - it is an important part of promoting peace. And it is no coincidence that countries where women are well-educated are far more likely to be prosperous.
The times are too serious, the stakes are too high for this same partisan playbook. Our universities and our culture are the envy of the world, but that's not what keeps the world coming to our shores.
It wasn't until after college, when I went to Chicago to work as a community organizer for a group of Christian churches, that I confronted my own spiritual dilemma. As imperfect as he may be, he has been like family to me. We may not agree on abortion, but surely we can agree on reducing the number of unwanted pregnancies in this country. The third source of tension is our shared interest in the rights and responsibilities of nations on nuclear weapons.
Thank you very much everybody.