This election is about hope

We know that the government doesn’t have the answers to all our problems.

We believe government should be lean and efficient, but in the words of the first Republican President, Abraham Lincoln, who, by the way, couldn’t get a nomination in today’s Republican Party, we also believe that government should do for the people what they cannot do better for themselves.
 
We believe in an America that rewards hard work and responsibility and individual initiative, but that also puts a hand up to help people live out their dreams.

We believe in an America that invests in its people, in its future, the education of our children, the skills of our workers.

We believe in a country where we look after one another, where I am my brother’s keeper, where I am my sister’s keeper.

That’s the America that I know, and that is the choice in this election.
 
We believe in an America that rewards hard work and responsibility and individual initiative, but that also puts a hand up to help people live out their dreams.

We believe in an America that invests in its people, in its future, the education of our children, the skills of our workers.

We believe in a country where we look after one another, where I am my brother’s keeper, where I am my sister’s keeper.

That’s the America that I know, and that is the choice in this election.

You lie!
 
This election is a choice, and if we give them the chance, which will happen if you don’t vote, they’ll keep giving tax breaks to companies that ship our jobs overseas.

We want to give tax breaks to companies that create jobs right here in the United States, to small businesses and American manufacturers and clean energy companies.

Because I don’t want wind panels and wind turbines and solar panels and electric cars made in Europe or Asia.

I want them built right here in the United States by American workers here in the United States of America.

That's the choice in this election.
 
This election is a choice, and if we give them the chance, which will happen if you don’t vote, they’ll keep giving tax breaks to companies that ship our jobs overseas.

We want to give tax breaks to companies that create jobs right here in the United States, to small businesses and American manufacturers and clean energy companies.

Because I don’t want wind panels and wind turbines and solar panels and electric cars made in Europe or Asia.

I want them built right here in the United States by American workers here in the United States of America.

That's the choice in this election.

You lie!
 
The other side has said they are going to cut taxes for millionaires and billionaires, costing us $700 billion, and to help pay for it, they’re going to cut education spending by 20 percent.

Now, think about this.

This is at a time when the question of whether a country competes almost entirely depends on how well we educate our children.

Do you think that China wants to cut education by 20 percent?

Is South Korea cutting education by 20 percent?

Those countries aren't playing for second place.

America doesn’t play for second place.

We play for first place.
 
The other side has said they are going to cut taxes for millionaires and billionaires, costing us $700 billion, and to help pay for it, they’re going to cut education spending by 20 percent.

Now, think about this.

This is at a time when the question of whether a country competes almost entirely depends on how well we educate our children.

Do you think that China wants to cut education by 20 percent?

Is South Korea cutting education by 20 percent?

Those countries aren't playing for second place.

America doesn’t play for second place.

We play for first place.

You lie!
 
We play for first, and that's why, instead of giving unwarranted subsidies to the banks, we've taken tens of billions of dollars and we’re now putting them where they should go, to students, to make sure that you can afford a college education, and a $10,000 tuition tax credit for every young person in America so you can get the education you deserve.

That's the choice in this election.
 
We play for first, and that's why, instead of giving unwarranted subsidies to the banks, we've taken tens of billions of dollars and we’re now putting them where they should go, to students, to make sure that you can afford a college education, and a $10,000 tuition tax credit for every young person in America so you can get the education you deserve.

That's the choice in this election.

You lie!
 
You know, the other side has already promised to roll back health insurance reform.

We refuse to make that happen.

We want to make sure that insurance companies can’t deny you coverage when you get sick.

We want to make sure that the law we passed remains the law of the land.
 
You know, the other side has already promised to roll back health insurance reform.

We refuse to make that happen.

We want to make sure that insurance companies can’t deny you coverage when you get sick.

We want to make sure that the law we passed remains the law of the land.

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I understand the last two years haven’t been easy.

I want everybody to understand, I told you this was going to be hard.

I told you power concedes nothing without a fight.

Inch by inch, day by day, week by week, we’ve been grinding it out, because that’s the nature of change in a big, complex democracy, and I recognize some of you may feel now that, gosh, it seems so distance from those wonderful memories and change is harder than I expected, we haven’t gotten everything done that we hoped for yet.

Maybe you know somebody in your family who’s out of a job, or maybe somebody in your neighborhood has put up a foreclosure sign, and you think, boy, we’re not moving as quick as we want.

I understand that, but don’t let anybody tell you that our fight hasn’t been worth it.

Don’t let them tell you that we’re not making a difference.

Because of you, there are people who don’t have to choose between getting treatment for their cancer or going bankrupt.

Because of you, there are parents who are able to look their children in the eye and say, yes, you will go to college.

Because of you, there are small businesses who are able to keep their doors open, even in the midst of recession.

Because of you, we have brought home nearly 100,000 brave men and women from Iraq.
 
I understand the last two years haven’t been easy.

I want everybody to understand, I told you this was going to be hard.

I told you power concedes nothing without a fight.

Inch by inch, day by day, week by week, we’ve been grinding it out, because that’s the nature of change in a big, complex democracy, and I recognize some of you may feel now that, gosh, it seems so distance from those wonderful memories and change is harder than I expected, we haven’t gotten everything done that we hoped for yet.

Maybe you know somebody in your family who’s out of a job, or maybe somebody in your neighborhood has put up a foreclosure sign, and you think, boy, we’re not moving as quick as we want.

I understand that, but don’t let anybody tell you that our fight hasn’t been worth it.

Don’t let them tell you that we’re not making a difference.

Because of you, there are people who don’t have to choose between getting treatment for their cancer or going bankrupt.

Because of you, there are parents who are able to look their children in the eye and say, yes, you will go to college.

Because of you, there are small businesses who are able to keep their doors open, even in the midst of recession.

Because of you, we have brought home nearly 100,000 brave men and women from Iraq.

You lie!
 
Change is always hard, and if our parents, if our grandparents, if our great-grandparents, if they have listened to the cynics 50 years ago, 100 years ago, 200 years ago, we wouldn’t be here today.

Think about it.

This country was founded on 13 colonies coming together to do what had never been done before, declaring a revolution, throwing off the yoke of tyranny, battling the biggest, baddest empire on Earth.

And then, they decided, you know, we’re going to try to form a new type of government, and they wrote on paper, they said in their Declaration, "we hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal”, that we are all "endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”

The cynics didn’t believe it, and then, when we had to perfect that union and fight a civil war, the cynics didn’t believe it.

They didn’t think we could free the slaves.

If our ancestors had given up, if they had given up to the cynics, we couldn’t have gotten through war, we couldn’t have gotten through depression, we would not have been able to battle and finally achieve civil rights and women’s rights and workers’ rights.

That is the spirit we have to summon today.

The journey we began together was not just about putting a President in the White House.

It was about building a movement for change.

It was about realizing the promise of the United States of America, and understanding that if we’re willing to work for it, there’s nothing we cannot achieve.
 
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