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It seems to me that each day, thousands of Americans are going about their lives - dropping the kids off at school, driving to work, shopping at the mall, trying to stay on their diets, trying to kick a cigarette habit - and they're coming to the realization that something is missing. No, the word is very near. But it also comes from my own American story. This is important because no development strategy can be based only upon what comes out of the ground, nor can it be sustained while young people are out of work. We have the power to make the world we seek, but only if we have the courage to make a new beginning, keeping in mind what has been written.
We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don't like federal agents poking around in our libraries in the Red States. Perhaps somebody told her along the way that the source of her mother's problems were blacks who were on welfare and too lazy to work, or Hispanics who were coming into the country illegally. I'll recruit an army of new teachers, and pay them higher salaries and give them more support. Progress in the daily lives of the Palestinian people must be part of a road to peace, and Israel must take concrete steps to enable such progress. And fault lines must be closed among Muslims as well, as the divisions between Sunni and Shia have led to tragic violence, particularly in Iraq.
They're ready to turn the page on the old politics and the old policies - whether it's the war in Iraq or the health care crisis we're in, or a school system that's leaving too many kids behind despite the slogans. I've seen it in Washington, when we worked across party lines to open up government and hold lobbyists more accountable, to give better care for our veterans and keep nuclear weapons out of terrorist hands. The third source of tension is our shared interest in the rights and responsibilities of nations on nuclear weapons. And any nation - including Iran - should have the right to access peaceful nuclear power if it complies with its responsibilities under the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. But we should choose the right path, not just the easy path.
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. I have brothers, sisters, nieces, nephews, uncles and cousins, of every race and every hue, scattered across three continents, and for as long as I live, I will never forget that in no other country on Earth is my story even possible. There is a young, twenty-three year old white woman named Ashley Baia who organized for our campaign in Florence, South Carolina. They could've heard words of anger and discord. It is agonizing for America to lose our young men and women. We have the power to make the world we seek, but only if we have the courage to make a new beginning, keeping in mind what has been written.
People don't expect government to solve all their problems. I'm talking about something more substantial. It's a promise that says each of us has the freedom to make of our own lives what we will, but that we also have the obligation to treat each other with dignity and respect.
Thank you, and God bless America.