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← Mitt Romney Gives Primary Victory Speech on Verge of General Election
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Showing Revision 5, created 05/01/2012 by eyechen .
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Thank you. Thank you for that welcome.
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And thank you, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and New York. Thank you.
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[CHEERS]
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And tonight I can also say, "Thank you, America,"
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because after forty-three primaries and caucuses,
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many long days and more than a few long nights,
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I can say with confidence and gratitude
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that you have given me a great honor and solemn responsibility,
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and together we are going to win on November 6th.
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[CHEERS]
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We launched this campaign not far from here:
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beautiful day in June in a farm in New Hampshire.
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It's been an extraordinary journey.
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You know, Americans have always been eternal optimists,
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but over the last three and a half years,
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we've seen hopes and dreams diminished
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by false promises and weak leadership.
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Everywhere I go, Americans are tired of being tired,
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and many of those who are fortunate to have a job are working harder for less.
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For every single mom, who feels heartbroken when she has to explain to her kids
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that she needs to take a second job and won't be home as often;
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for grandparents, who can't afford the gas to visit their grandchildren anymore;
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for the mom and dad, who'd never though they'd be on food stamps;
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for the small business owner, desperately cutting back just to keep the doors open one more month;
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to all of the thousands of good and decent Americans I've met,
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who want nothing more than a better chance - a fighting chance;
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to all of you, I have a simple message:
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hold on a little longer; a better America begins tonight.
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[CHEERS]
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[CHANTS]
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Tonight is the start of a new campaign
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to unite every American, who knows in their heart that we can do better.
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The last few years have been the best that Barack Obama can do, but it's not the best American can do.
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Tonight is the beginning of the end of the disappointments of the Obama years.
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[CHEERS}
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And it's the start of a better and new chapter that we will write together.
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It's already been a long campaign,
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but many Americans are just beginning to focus on the choice before the country.
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In the days ahead, I'll look forward to spending time with many of you personally.
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I want to hear what's on your mind - hear about your concerns.
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And I want to learn about your families.
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I want to know what you think we can do to make this country better,
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and what you expect from your next president.
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And I'll probably tell you a little bit about myself.
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I'll start by talking about my wife Ann, of course.
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[CHEERS/CHANTS]
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And I'll probably bore you with stories about my sons and my grandkids.
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I'll tell ya how much I love the country.
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This extraordinary land, where someone like my dad,
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who grew up poor, never graduated from college,
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could pursue his dreams and work his way up to running a great car company.
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Only in America could a man like my dad
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become governor of a state where he once sold paint from the trunk of his car.
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[CHEERS]
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When I see you, I think I'll tell you that
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you may have heard I was successful in business.
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[CHEERS]
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Yep, that rumor's true.
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But you might not have heard that
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I became successful by helping start a business that grew from ten people to hundreds of people.
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You might not have heard that our business helps start other businesses,
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like Staples and the Sports Authority, and a new steel mill, and a learning center called Bright Horizons.
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And I'd tell you that not every business made it.
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And there were good days, and bad days.
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But everyday was a lesson.
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And after twenty-five years,
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I know how to lead us out of this stagnant Obama economy
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and into a job-creating recovery.
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[CHEERS]
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Four years ago, Barack Obama dazzled us, in front of Greek columns,
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with sweeping promises of hope and change,
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but after we can down to earth, after all the celbration and the parades,
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what do we have to show for three and a half years of President Obama?
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[Crowd: Nothing!]
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Is it easier to make ends meet?
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[Crowd: No!]
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Is it easier to sell your home or buy a new one?
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[Crowd: No!]
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Have you saved what you needed for retirement?
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[Crowd: No!]
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Are you making more at your job?
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[Crowd: No!]
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Do you have a better chance to get a better job?
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[Crowd: No!]
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Are you paying less at the pump?
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[Crowd: No!]
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You know, if the answer were "yes" to those questions,
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then President Obama would be running for reelection based on his record, and rightly so.
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But because he has failed,
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he will run a campaign of diversions and distractions and distortions.
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That kind of campaign may have worked in another place and at a different time,
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but not here and not now.
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It's still about the economy, and we're not stupid.
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[CHEERS]
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People are hurting in America, and we know that something is wrong, terribly wrong, with the direction of the country.
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We know that this election is about the kind of America we will live in
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and the kind of America we will leave to future generations.
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Now when it comes to the character of America,
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President Obama and I have very different visions.
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Government is at the center of his vision.
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It dispenses the benefits, borrows what it can't take, consumes a greater and greater share of the economy.
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You know, with Obamacare fully installed, government would have control of almost half of the economy.
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And we would have effectively cease to be a free enterprise society.
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This president's putting us on a path
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where our lives will be ruled by bureaucrats and boards, commisions and czars.
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He's asking us to accept that Washington knows best and can provide all.
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We've already seen where that path leads.
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It erodes freedom. It deadens the entrepreneurial spirit.
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And it hurts the very people it's supposed to help.
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Those who promise to spread the wealth around only ever succeed in spreading poverty around.
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[CHEERS]
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Other nations have chosen that path.
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It leads to chronic high unemployment, crushing debt, and stagnant wages.
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I have a very different vision for America and for our future.
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It's an America driven by freedom,
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where free people, pursuing happiness in their own unique ways,
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create free enterprises that employ more and more Americans.
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And because there are so many enterprises that are succeeding,
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the competition for hardworking, educated, skilled employees is intense; so wages and salaries rise.
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I see an America with a growing middle class, with rising standards of living.
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I see children even more successful than their parents;
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some successful even beyond their wildest dreams.
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And others congratulating them for their achievement, not attacking them for it.
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[CHEERS/CHANTS]
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This America is fundamentally fair.
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We will stop the unfairness of urban children being denied access to the good schools of their choice.
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[CHEERS]
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We will stop the unfairness of politicians giving taxpayer money to their friends' businesses.
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[CHEERS]
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We will stop the unfairness of requiring union workers to contribute to politicians not of their choosing.
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[CHEERS]
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We will stop the unfairness of government workers getting better pay and benefits than very the taxpayers they serve.
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[CHEERS]
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And we will stop the unfairness of one generation passing larger and larger debts on to the next.
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[CHEERS]
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In the America I see, character and choices matter.
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And education, hard work, and living within our means are valued and rewarded.
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And poverty will be defeated, not with a government check,
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but with respect and achievement that's taught by parents, learned in school, and practiced in the workplace.
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[CHEERS]
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This is the America that was won for us by the nation's founders,
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and earned for us by the greatest generation.
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It's the America that has produced the most innovative,
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most productive, and most powerful economy in the world.
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As I look around at the millions of Americans without work,
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the graduates who can't get a job,
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the soldiers who return home to an unemployment line,
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it breaks my heart.
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This does not have to be.
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It's the result of failed leadership and a faulty vision.
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We will restore the promise of America only if we restore
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the principles of freedom and opportunity that made this nation the greatest nation on earth.
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[CHEERS]
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Today the hill before us is a little steep, but we've always been a nation of big steppers.
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Many Americans have given up on this president,
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but they haven't ever thought of giving up.
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Not on themselves, not on each other, and certainly not on America.
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[CHEERS]
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In the days ahead, join me.
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Join me in the next step towards that destination of November 6th,
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when across America, we can give a sigh of relief
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and know that the promise of America has been kept.
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The dreamers can dream a little bigger.
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The "Help Wanted" signs can be dusted off.
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And we can start again. And this time we'll get it right.
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[CHEERS]
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[CHANTS]
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We will stop the days of apologizing for success at home,
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and never again apologize for America abroad.
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[CHEERS]
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There was a time not so long ago, when each of us could walk a little taller,
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and stand a little straighter, because we had a gift that no one else in the world shared.
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We're Americans.
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That meant something different to each of us, but it meant something special to all of us.
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We knew it without question, and so did the world.
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Those days are coming back. That's our destiny.
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[CHEERS/CHANTS]
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You see, we believe in America. We believe in ourselves.
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Our greatest days are ahead. We are, after all, Americans.
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God bless this great nation, God bless the United States of America, and God bless you good people.
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Thank you so much. Thank you.