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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. We are a better country than this. We measure progress by how many people can find a job that pays the mortgage; whether you can put a little extra money away at the end of each month so you can someday watch your child receive her college diploma.
So doing the Lord's work is a thread that's run through our politics since the very beginning. We the people, in order to form a more perfect union." But they have helped shape the political landscape for at least a generation. It requires all Americans to realize that your dreams do not have to come at the expense of my dreams; that investing in the health, welfare, and education of black and brown and white children will ultimately help all of America prosper. You make a big election about small things.
It is agonizing for America to lose our young men and women. It is a sign of neither courage nor power to shoot rockets at sleeping children, or to blow up old women on a bus.
"I'm here because of Ashley." By itself, that single moment of recognition between that young white girl and that old black man is not enough. For eighteen long months, you have stood up, one by one, and said enough to the politics of the past. Resistance through violence and killing is wrong and does not succeed. And I will host a Summit on Entrepreneurship this year to identify how we can deepen ties between business leaders, foundations and social entrepreneurs in the United States and Muslim communities around the world.
I chose to run for the presidency at this moment in history because I believe deeply that we cannot solve the challenges of our time unless we solve them together - unless we perfect our union by understanding that we may have different stories, but we hold common hopes; that we may not look the same and we may not have come from the same place, but we all want to move in the same direction - towards a better future for of children and our grandchildren. This time we want to reject the cynicism that tells us that these kids can't learn; that those kids who don't look like us are somebody else's problem. Too much blood has been shed.
Thank you very much everybody.