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This union may never be perfect, but generation after generation has shown that it can always be perfected. I know, too, that Islam has always been a part of America's story. In Turkey, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Indonesia, we have seen Muslim-majority countries elect a woman to lead.
Our conscience can't rest so long as 37 million Americans are poor and forgotten by their leaders in Washington and by the media elites. We measure progress in the 23 million new jobs that were created when Bill Clinton was President - when the average American family saw its income go up $7,500 instead of down $2,000 like it has under George Bush. Six million Jews were killed - more than the entire Jewish population of Israel today.
People don't expect government to solve all their problems. It's a war I'm proud I opposed from the start - a war that should never have been authorized and never been waged. 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.
They're deciding that their work, their possessions, their diversions, their sheer busyness, is not enough. That's why I stand here tonight. I don't fit the typical pedigree, and I haven't spent my career in the halls of Washington. You have shown what history teaches us - that at defining moments like this one, the change we need doesn't come from Washington. The Holy Bible tells us, "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God."
I believe that we have a righteous wind at our backs and that as we stand on the crossroads of history, we can make the right choices, and meet the challenges that face us. Those stories - of survival, and freedom, and hope - became our story, my story; the blood that had spilled was our blood, the tears our tears; until this black church, on this bright day, seemed once more a vessel carrying the story of a people into future generations and into a larger world. He contains within him the contradictions - the good and the bad - of the community that he has served diligently for so many years. For over two decades, he's subscribed to that old, discredited Republican philosophy - give more and more to those with the most and hope that prosperity trickles down to everyone else. 9/11 was an enormous trauma to our country. This issue has been a source of tension between the United States and the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Thank you very much everybody.