Together we resolve that a great nation must care for the vulnerable and protect its people from life's worst hazards and misfortune.

Alongside my own deep personal faith, I am a follower, as well, of our civic religion. I am a big believer in the separation of church and state.

People are very hungry for something new. I think they are interested in being called to be a part of something larger than the sort of small, petty, slash-and-burn politics that we have been seeing over the last several years.

I'm so overexposed, I'm making Paris Hilton look like a recluse.

I'm named Barack Hussein Obama. I'm African-­American.

So Americans understand the costs of war. Yet as a country, we will never tolerate our security being threatened, nor stand idly by when our people have been killed. We will be relentless in defense of our citizens and our friends and allies. We will be true to the values that make us who we are.

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