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The fact is that the comments that have been made and the issues that have surfaced over the last few weeks reflect the complexities of race in this country that we've never really worked through - a part of our union that we have yet to perfect. It's time for us to change America. The Bush-McCain foreign policy has squandered the legacy that generations of Americans - Democrats and Republicans - have built, and we are here to restore that legacy.
These are my heroes. As a young man, I worked in Chicago communities where many found dignity and peace in their Muslim faith.
Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or do we participate in a politics of hope? This country is more decent than one where a woman in Ohio, on the brink of retirement, finds herself one illness away from disaster after a lifetime of hard work. These are the policies I will pursue. 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. When violent extremists operate in one stretch of mountains, people are endangered across an ocean. Trade can bring new wealth and opportunities, but also huge disruptions and changing communities.
He told me he'd joined the Marines, and was heading to Iraq the following week. A nation of whiners? Tell that to the proud auto workers at a Michigan plant who, after they found out it was closing, kept showing up every day and working as hard as ever, because they knew there were people who counted on the brakes that they made.
And it offends our conscience. And I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear. This truth transcends nations and peoples - a belief that isn't new; that isn't black or white or brown; that isn't Christian, or Muslim or Jew.
Thank you. And may God's peace be upon you.