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So let's rededicate ourselves to a new kind of politics - a politics of conscience. What would be needed were Americans in successive generations who were willing to do their part - through protests and struggle, on the streets and in the courts, through a civil war and civil disobedience and always at great risk - to narrow that gap between the promise of our ideals and the reality of their time. Did I strongly disagree with many of his political views? Absolutely - just as I'm sure many of you have heard remarks from your pastors, priests, or rabbis with which you strongly disagreed.
And when the Civil War was fought and our country dedicated itself to a new birth of freedom, they took on the problems of an industrializing nation - fighting the crimes against society and the sins against God that they felt were being committed in our factories and in our slums. This is a problem that's brought together churches and synagogues and mosques and people of all faiths as part of a grassroots movement. In that time, he's said no to higher fuel-efficiency standards for cars, no to investments in renewable energy, no to renewable fuels. And I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear. And so in that spirit, let me speak as clearly and plainly as I can about some specific issues that I believe we must finally confront together. Because we reject the same thing that people of all faiths reject: the killing of innocent men, women, and children.
Talk show hosts and conservative commentators built entire careers unmasking bogus claims of racism while dismissing legitimate discussions of racial injustice and inequality as mere political correctness or reverse racism. 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. But the failure to respond is a direct result of a broken politics in Washington and the failed policies of George W. Bush. And I'll invest 150 billion dollars over the next decade in affordable, renewable sources of energy - wind power and solar power and the next generation of biofuels; an investment that will lead to new industries and five million new jobs that pay well and can't ever be outsourced.
John Edwards calls on us to hope. I believe that we have a righteous wind at our backs and that as we stand on the crossroads of history, we can make the right choices, and meet the challenges that face us. Part of it's because of the so-called leaders of the Christian Right, who've been all too eager to exploit what divides us.
They're looking to relieve a chronic loneliness. But the truth is, that isn't all that I know of the man. Not with so much work to be done. In signing the Treaty of Tripoli in 1796, our second President John Adams wrote, "The United States has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of Muslims." And since our founding, American Muslims have enriched the United States. Just as Muslims do not fit a crude stereotype, America is not the crude stereotype of a self-interested empire.
Thank you. And may God's peace be upon you.