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And it's around this time that some pastors I was working with came up to me and asked if I was a member of a church. We will all have to make concessions to achieve this. I will end this war in Iraq responsibly, and finish the fight against al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan. For human history has often been a record of nations and tribes subjugating one another to serve their own interests.
And they, too, had big dreams for their daughter. They know those things. John Kerry believes in energy independence, so we aren't held hostage to the profits of oil companies, or the sabotage of foreign oil fields.
From his heroic service to Vietnam, to his years as a prosecutor and lieutenant governor, through two decades in the United States Senate, he has devoted himself to this country. Well it's time for them to own their failure. When John McCain said we could just "muddle through" in Afghanistan, I argued for more resources and more troops to finish the fight against the terrorists who actually attacked us on 9/11, and made clear that we must take out Osama bin Laden and his lieutenants if we have them in our sights.
It is that fundamental belief, it is that fundamental belief, I am my brother's keeper, I am my sister's keeper that makes this country work. So don't tell me that Democrats won't defend this country. What has also been lost is our sense of common purpose - our sense of higher purpose. I am honored to be in the timeless city of Cairo, and to be hosted by two remarkable institutions. That is why the U.S.
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. My faith teaches me that I can sit in church and pray all I want, but I won't be fulfilling God's will unless I go out and do the Lord's work. But we do need to remind ourselves that so many of the disparities that exist in the African-American community today can be directly traced to inequalities passed on from an earlier generation that suffered under the brutal legacy of slavery and Jim Crow. But the anger is real; it is powerful; and to simply wish it away, to condemn it without understanding its roots, only serves to widen the chasm of misunderstanding that exists between the races. Our universities and our culture are the envy of the world, but that's not what keeps the world coming to our shores.
Thank you very much everybody.