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He's still speaking to our Catholic friends - who are holding up a consistent ethic of life that goes beyond abortion - one that includes a respect for life and dignity whether it's in Iraq, in poor neighborhoods, in African villages or even on death row. It is a sign of neither courage nor power to shoot rockets at sleeping children, or to blow up old women on a bus.
So doing the Lord's work is a thread that's run through our politics since the very beginning. They're telling me that their conversation about what it means to be Catholic continues. In Washington, they call this the Ownership Society, but what it really means is - you're on your own. 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. Unlike Afghanistan, Iraq was a war of choice that provoked strong differences in my country and around the world. For peace to come, it is time for them - and all of us - to live up to our responsibilities.
It was because of these newfound understandings that I was finally able to walk down the aisle of Trinity one day and affirm my Christian faith. This country is more generous than one where a man in Indiana has to pack up the equipment he's worked on for twenty years and watch it shipped off to China, and then chokes up as he explains how he felt like a failure when he went home to tell his family the news. The United States does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlements.
We cannot ignore that we have a right and a duty to protect our borders. But if we do, I can tell you that in the next election, we'll be talking about some other distraction. That's the change we need right now. This cycle of suspicion and discord must end. Yet in this new age, such attitudes are self-defeating.
Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal. He does not say health care or the economy. But I will also go through the federal budget, line by line, eliminating programs that no longer work and making the ones we do need work better and cost less - because we cannot meet twenty-first century challenges with a twentieth century bureaucracy. And so in that spirit, let me speak as clearly and plainly as I can about some specific issues that I believe we must finally confront together.
Thank you.