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And so long as we're not doing everything in our personal and collective power to solve them, we know the conscience of our nation cannot rest. This time we want to reject the cynicism that tells us that these kids can't learn; that those kids who don't look like us are somebody else's problem. Many Gulf States have enjoyed great wealth as a consequence of oil, and some are beginning to focus it on broader development.
Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or do we participate in a politics of hope? And occasionally it finds voice in the church on Sunday morning, in the pulpit and in the pews. It's time for us to change America. And I'll invest 150 billion dollars over the next decade in affordable, renewable sources of energy - wind power and solar power and the next generation of biofuels; an investment that will lead to new industries and five million new jobs that pay well and can't ever be outsourced. Not with so many families to protect and so many lives to mend.
Go into the collar counties around Chicago, and people will tell you they don't want their tax money wasted, by a welfare agency or by the Pentagon. That won't keep America safe. But what the people heard instead - people of every creed and color, from every walk of life - is that in America, our destiny is inextricably linked.
And if we walk away now, if we simply retreat into our respective corners, we will never be able to come together and solve challenges like health care, or education, or the need to find good jobs for every American. If John McCain wants to follow George Bush with more tough talk and bad strategy, that is his choice - but it is not the change we need. 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. They could've heard words of anger and discord. Suppressing ideas never succeeds in making them go away. There is also one rule that lies at the heart of every religion - that we do unto others as we would have them do unto us.
And I found that I recognized in these folks a part of myself. I can assure you it is not. Yes, we must provide more ladders to success for young men who fall into lives of crime and despair.
Thank you, and God bless America.