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This year, in this election, we are called to reaffirm our values and our commitments, to hold them against a hard reality and see how we are measuring up, to the legacy of our forbearers, and the promise of future generations. 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. It's not consistent with our traditions of justice and fairness. And if we walk away now, if we simply retreat into our respective corners, we will never be able to come together and solve challenges like health care, or education, or the need to find good jobs for every American. Let us keep that promise - that American promise - and in the words of Scripture hold firmly, without wavering, to the hope that we confess. That is why we plan to invest $1.5 billion each year over the next five years to partner with Pakistanis to build schools and hospitals, roads and businesses, and hundreds of millions to help those who have been displaced.
And we cannot ignore the very real concerns of Americans who are not worried about illegal immigration because they are racist or xenophobic, but because they fear it will result in lower wages when they're already struggling to raise their families. This time we want to talk about the men and women of every color and creed who serve together, and fight together, and bleed together under the same proud flag. She's the one who taught me about hard work. The Holy Koran teaches that whoever kills an innocent, it is as if he has killed all mankind; and whoever saves a person, it is as if he has saved all mankind. The third source of tension is our shared interest in the rights and responsibilities of nations on nuclear weapons.
Again and again, we've seen him make tough choices when easier ones were available. Well, I say to them tonight, there is not a liberal America and a conservative America - there is the United States of America. Well it's time for them to own their failure.
But the remarks that have caused this recent firestorm weren't simply controversial. It's a racial stalemate we've been stuck in for years. Now, I don't believe that Senator McCain doesn't care what's going on in the lives of Americans. The men and women who serve in our battlefields may be Democrats and Republicans and Independents, but they have fought together and bled together and some died together under the same proud flag. And that's what we have to restore.
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. And so long as we're not doing everything in our personal and collective power to solve them, we know the conscience of our nation cannot rest. So let me spell out exactly what that change would mean if I am President. If you don't, you'll be able to get the same kind of coverage that members of Congress give themselves.
God bless you.