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And the lack of basic services in so many urban black neighborhoods - parks for kids to play in, police walking the beat, regular garbage pick-up and building code enforcement - all helped create a cycle of violence, blight and neglect that continue to haunt us. And it is on their behalf that I intend to win this election and keep our promise alive as President of the United States. And I will not settle for an America where some kids don't have that chance.
You don't defeat a terrorist network that operates in eighty countries by occupying Iraq. As a student of history, I also know civilization's debt to Islam.
Given my background, my politics, and my professed values and ideals, there will no doubt be those for whom my statements of condemnation are not enough. Because it feeds into the cynicism we all have about government. And it is my first duty as President to protect the American people. But we can only achieve it together.
I thought of the 900 men and women - sons and daughters, husbands and wives, friends and neighbors, who won't be returning to their own hometowns. And so long as we're not doing everything in our personal and collective power to solve them, we know the conscience of our nation cannot rest. And I'll invest 150 billion dollars over the next decade in affordable, renewable sources of energy - wind power and solar power and the next generation of biofuels; an investment that will lead to new industries and five million new jobs that pay well and can't ever be outsourced. And you know what - it's worked before.
Did I strongly disagree with many of his political views? Absolutely - just as I'm sure many of you have heard remarks from your pastors, priests, or rabbis with which you strongly disagreed. These people are a part of me. That is the world we seek.
Thank you very much everybody.