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She sought out allies in her fight against injustice. 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.
John Kerry understands the ideals of community, faith, and service because they've defined his life. He told me he'd joined the Marines, and was heading to Iraq the following week. For some, nagging questions remain. I suppose the politically safe thing would be to move on from this episode and just hope that it fades into the woodwork. At this moment, in this election, we must pledge once more to march into the future. No single speech can eradicate years of mistrust, nor can I answer in the time that I have all the complex questions that brought us to this point.
I learned that everyone's got a sacred story when you take the time to listen. Tonight, I say to the American people, to Democrats and Republicans and Independents across this great land - enough! This moment - this election - is our chance to keep, in the 21st century, the American promise alive. The United States does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlements.
It is that fundamental belief, it is that fundamental belief, I am my brother's keeper, I am my sister's keeper that makes this country work. It's a promise that says the market should reward drive and innovation and generate growth, but that businesses should live up to their responsibilities to create American jobs, look out for American workers, and play by the rules of the road. Resistance through violence and killing is wrong and does not succeed.
I thought of the families I've met who were struggling to get by without a loved one's full income, or whose loved ones had returned with a limb missing or nerves shattered, but who still lacked long-term health benefits because they were Reservists. These enemies must be found. And slowly, I came to realize that something was missing as well - that without an anchor for my beliefs, without a commitment to a particular community of faith, at some level I would always remain apart, and alone. We need to heed the biblical call to care for "the least of these" and lift the poor out of despair. Contrary to the claims of some of my critics, black and white, I have never been so naive as to believe that we can get beyond our racial divisions in a single election cycle, or with a single candidacy - particularly a candidacy as imperfect as my own. The men and women who gathered there could've heard many things.
Thank you very much everybody.