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Let's come together - Protestant and Catholic, Muslim and Hindu and Jew, believer and non-believer alike. They have fought in our wars, served in government, stood for civil rights, started businesses, taught at our Universities, excelled in our sports arenas, won Nobel Prizes, built our tallest building, and lit the Olympic Torch. Although I believe that the Iraqi people are ultimately better off without the tyranny of Saddam Hussein, I also believe that events in Iraq have reminded America of the need to use diplomacy and build international consensus to resolve our problems whenever possible. That is why I ordered the removal of our combat brigades by next August. It was a peaceful and determined insistence upon the ideals at the center of America's founding.
He was nominally a Muslim since there were a number of Muslims in the village where he was born. That's what compromise is about. The UCC is still listening. For some, nagging questions remain. Yet in this new age, such attitudes are self-defeating. Finally, I want to discuss economic development and opportunity.
He told me he'd joined the Marines, and was heading to Iraq the following week. I believe that we can give our middle class relief and provide working families with a road to opportunity. It is not enough to give health care to the sick, or jobs to the jobless, or education to our children. We are more compassionate than a government that lets veterans sleep on our streets and families slide into poverty; that sits on its hands while a major American city drowns before our eyes.
The audacity of hope! In the end, that is God's greatest gift to us, the bedrock of this nation. So it's 1985, and I'm in Chicago, and I'm working with these churches, and with lots of laypeople who are much older than I am. And as so many generations have come to realize over the course of the two-hundred and twenty one years since a band of patriots signed that document in Philadelphia, that is where the perfection begins. To President Clinton, who last night made the case for change as only he can make it; to Ted Kennedy, who embodies the spirit of service; and to the next Vice President of the United States, Joe Biden, I thank you. Change means a tax code that doesn't reward the lobbyists who wrote it, but the American workers and small businesses who deserve it. That is why I am committed to working with American Muslims to ensure that they can fulfill zakat.
I believe that we can give our middle class relief and provide working families with a road to opportunity. And today, whenever I find myself feeling doubtful or cynical about this possibility, what gives me the most hope is the next generation - the young people whose attitudes and beliefs and openness to change have already made history in this election. I will rebuild our military to meet future conflicts. Not with an economy to fix and cities to rebuild and farms to save.
Thank you.