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John Kerry calls on us to hope. I am grateful to finish this journey with one of the finest statesmen of our time, a man at ease with everyone from world leaders to the conductors on the Amtrak train he still takes home every night. It is about preventing a nuclear arms race in the Middle East that could lead this region and the world down a hugely dangerous path.
And if we can do that - if we can embrace a common destiny - then I believe we'll not just help bring about a more hopeful day in America, we'll not just be caring for our own souls, we'll be doing God's work here on Earth. Given our interdependence, any world order that elevates one nation or group of people over another will inevitably fail.
It's that we all have it within our power to make this a better world. As William Faulkner once wrote, "The past isn't dead and buried. For we have a choice in this country.
So let's rededicate ourselves to a new kind of politics - a politics of conscience. And when I hear a woman talk about the difficulties of starting her own business, I think about my grandmother, who worked her way up from the secretarial pool to middle-management, despite years of being passed over for promotions because she was a woman. As a student of history, I also know civilization's debt to Islam. The victims were innocent men, women and children from America and many other nations who had done nothing to harm anybody. People in every country should be free to choose and live their faith based upon the persuasion of the mind, heart, and soul.
More to do for the father that I met who was losing his job and choking back the tears, wondering how he would pay $4,500 a month for the drugs his son needs without the health benefits that he counted on. In the middle of the Cold War, the United States played a role in the overthrow of a democratically-elected Iranian government.
Thank you, God Bless you, and God Bless the United States of America.