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Religious leaders like my friends Rev. Jim Wallis and Rabbi David Saperstein and Nathan Diament are working for justice and fighting for change. In South Carolina, where the Confederate Flag still flies, we built a powerful coalition of African Americans and white Americans. You can't truly stand up for Georgia when you've strained our oldest alliances. We will open centers of scientific excellence in Africa, the Middle East and Southeast Asia, and appoint new Science Envoys to collaborate on programs that develop new sources of energy, create green jobs, digitize records, clean water, and grow new crops.
So doing the Lord's work is a thread that's run through our politics since the very beginning. We need a President who can face the threats of the future, not keep grasping at the ideas of the past. Some suggest that it isn't worth the effort - that we are fated to disagree, and civilizations are doomed to clash.
Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our 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. What has also been lost is our sense of common purpose - our sense of higher purpose. The situation in Afghanistan demonstrates America's goals, and our need to work together.
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. We can do that. This union may never be perfect, but generation after generation has shown that it can always be perfected. King's birthday at his home church, Ebenezer Baptist, in Atlanta. It's a faith in other people, and it's what brought me here today.
Wright deliver a sermon called "The Audacity of Hope." And during the course of that sermon, he introduced me to someone named Jesus Christ. To Chairman Dean and my great friend Dick Durbin; and to all my fellow citizens of this great nation; Those are mutual interests.
Thank you very much everybody.