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They all have different stories and reasons. But the failure to respond is a direct result of a broken politics in Washington and the failed policies of George W. Bush. Now let there be no doubt. For while Senator McCain was turning his sights to Iraq just days after 9/11, I stood up and opposed this war, knowing that it would distract us from the real threats we face. You don't defeat a terrorist network that operates in eighty countries by occupying Iraq. The issues that I have described will not be easy to address.
If there is a child on the south side of Chicago who can't read, that matters to me, even if it's not my child. And when the Civil War was fought and our country dedicated itself to a new birth of freedom, they took on the problems of an industrializing nation - fighting the crimes against society and the sins against God that they felt were being committed in our factories and in our slums. We the people, in order to form a more perfect union." Two hundred and twenty one years ago, in a hall that still stands across the street, a group of men gathered and, with these simple words, launched America's improbable experiment in democracy. Countries like Japan and South Korea grew their economies while maintaining distinct cultures.
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. But we can only achieve it together.
You have shown what history teaches us - that at defining moments like this one, the change we need doesn't come from Washington. These things we share. That is the responsibility we have to one another as human beings.
But at the end of the day, we cannot walk away - not for the sake of passing a bill, but so that we can finally address the real concerns of Americans and the persistent hopes of all those brothers and sisters who want nothing more than their own chance at our common dream. This time we want to talk about the shuttered mills that once provided a decent life for men and women of every race, and the homes for sale that once belonged to Americans from every religion, every region, every walk of life. I believe that as hard as it will be, the change we need is coming.
Thank you, and God bless America.