DESPICABLE Trump Gets TORCHED by Biden in Speech of the Year
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00:00 I'm not exaggerating this at all.
00:03 President Joe Biden spoke at Arizona State University, which is home of the McCain Institute,
00:10 where President Biden announced funding from the American Rescue Plan that will be used
00:15 to build the McCain Library in partnership with the Institute.
00:22 But what the speech touched on and why this is so important and why I'm asking you to
00:26 watch this is that the speech touched upon the core tenets of President Biden's re-election
00:34 pitch, which is our democracy, the importance of our constitution, the importance to push
00:44 back against extremism.
00:47 And I always hear from you, "Ben, you need to show more speeches from President Biden."
00:54 We appreciate the work, but show President Biden.
00:57 Well, I want to do that right now.
00:59 So please make sure you watch this full video.
01:03 I'm so honored to share it with you.
01:06 This is our president, President Biden.
01:10 Play the clip.
01:11 I tell you what, it's an honor to be with you.
01:12 It's a genuine honor.
01:13 Governor Hobbs, you've done an incredible job.
01:15 You've been a leader and defender of democracy, and you've always been available when I've
01:19 called, and I hope I've been available when you called as well.
01:23 Ladies and gentlemen, distinguished guests, in the end, John McCain thought about the
01:31 beginning.
01:33 Five years ago, as John was dying from brain cancer, John wrote a farewell letter to the
01:41 nation that he said he served so well in both war and in peace.
01:47 His words track back centuries to America's founding and then toward a triumphant future.
01:53 Here's what John wrote, and I quote, "We are citizens of the world, the world's greatest
02:00 republic, a nation of ideals, not blood and soil.
02:07 Americans never quit.
02:09 They never hide from history.
02:11 America makes history."
02:13 And John was right.
02:15 Every other nation in the world has been founded on either grouping by ethnicity, religion,
02:22 background.
02:23 We're the most unique nation in the world.
02:26 We're founded on idea.
02:27 The only major nation in the world founded on an idea, an idea that we are all created
02:34 equal, endowed by our image of God, endowed by our Creator to be able to treat it equally
02:39 throughout our lives.
02:41 We've never fully lived up to that idea, but we've never walked away from it.
02:46 But there's danger we're walking too far away from it now, the way we talk in this country,
02:52 because a long line of patriots like John McCain kept it from ever becoming something
02:57 other than what it is.
02:58 I often think about our friendship of 40 years, the hammer and tong debates we'd have in the
03:05 Senate.
03:06 We'd argue.
03:07 We're like two brothers.
03:08 We'd argue like hell.
03:09 I mean, really go at one another.
03:11 Then we'd go to lunch together.
03:13 No, not a joke.
03:15 Or John would ride home with me.
03:16 I mean, we traveled the world together.
03:20 And by the way, when he found this magnificent woman and got married, I'm the guy that convinced
03:26 him to run in Arizona as a Republican.
03:31 Bless me, Father.
03:32 No, but it's, you've got to admit, Cindy, I did.
03:38 I talked to him and I said, John, you can do this job.
03:41 My only worry is you'll do it too well.
03:43 Look, running opposite sides of the nation's highest office when he was running for president
03:48 and I was on the vice presidential ticket, we still remained friends.
03:52 The conversation we had, he had, with my son, Beau, the attorney general of the state of
03:59 Delaware, a decorated major in the US Army, was a guy who spent a year in Iraq about serving
04:06 in a war overseas, about the courage and battle against the same cancer.
04:12 And that took John and my son.
04:16 Two weeks ago, I thought about John as I was standing in another part of the world in Vietnam.
04:22 I don't want to be, excuse me if I, it was an emotional trip.
04:30 I was there to usher in a 50 year arc of progress, the two countries pushed by John.
04:38 And I might add another John, this former secretary of state, John from Massachusetts,
04:46 won the silver star as well.
04:48 Once at war, we're now choosing the highest possible partnership made possible through
04:55 John's leadership.
04:57 I mean it sincerely.
04:58 Think about it.
04:59 While in Illinois, I visited a marker depicting where John had endured all the pain.
05:05 Imprisoned five and a half years, solitary confinement for two years, given an opportunity,
05:12 an opportunity to come home if he just said a couple things.
05:17 He was beaten, bloodied, bones broken, isolated, tortured, left unable to raise his arms above
05:25 his shoulders again.
05:28 As I stood there paying my respects, I thought about how much I miss my friend.
05:33 And it's not hyperbole, from the bottom of my heart, I mean this.
05:38 I thought about something else as well.
05:40 Thought about how much America missed John right now.
05:45 How much America needed John's courage and foresight and vision.
05:50 I thought about what John stood for, what he fought for, what he's willing to die for.
05:56 I thought about what we owe John, what I owed him, and what we owe each other as well, Americans
06:04 as well.
06:05 You see, and John's one of those patriots, when they die, their voices are never silent.
06:13 They still speak to us.
06:15 They tug at both our hearts and our conscience.
06:19 And they pose the most profound questions.
06:21 Who are we?
06:23 What do we stand for?
06:25 What do we believe?
06:28 What will we be?
06:30 For John, it was country first.
06:35 Sounds like a movie, but it's real with John.
06:38 Honor, duty, decency, freedom, liberty, democracy.
06:45 And now history has brought us to a new time of testing.
06:49 Very few of us will ever be asked to endure what John McCain endured.
06:54 But all of us are being asked right now, what will we do to maintain our democracy?
07:02 Will we, as John wrote, never quit?
07:04 Will we not hide from history, but make history?
07:09 Will we put partisanship aside and put country first?
07:16 I say we must, and we will.
07:20 We will.
07:21 But it's not easy.
07:28 It's not easy.
07:29 Why don't you wait?
07:30 Hang on a second.
07:31 I'll be happy to meet with you after I speak, okay?
07:32 I promise no one will ever be able to take away the power of the people.
07:33 I promise no one will ever be able to take away the power of the people.
07:34 I promise no one will ever be able to take away the power of the people.
07:35 I promise no one will ever be able to take away the power of the people.
07:36 I promise no one will ever be able to take away the power of the people.
07:37 I promise no one will ever be able to take away the power of the people.
07:38 I promise no one will ever be able to take away the power of the people.
07:39 I promise no one will ever be able to take away the power of the people.
07:40 I promise no one will ever be able to take away the power of the people.
07:41 I promise no one will ever be able to take away the power of the people.
08:03 I promise no one will ever be able to take away the power of the people.
08:04 I promise no one will ever be able to take away the power of the people.
08:05 I promise no one will ever be able to take away the power of the people.
08:06 I promise no one will ever be able to take away the power of the people.
08:07 I promise no one will ever be able to take away the power of the people.
08:08 I promise no one will ever be able to take away the power of the people.
08:09 I promise no one will ever be able to take away the power of the people.
08:10 But democracy never is easy, as we just demonstrated.
08:16 The cause is worth giving our all for democracy makes all things possible.
08:24 Let me begin with the core principles.
08:28 Democracy means rule of the people, not rule of monarchs, not rule of the money, not rule
08:32 of the mighty.
08:34 Regardless of party, that means respecting free and fair elections, accepting the outcome,
08:39 win or lose.
08:41 It means you can't love your country only when you win.
08:52 Democracy means rejecting and repudiating political violence.
08:56 Regardless of party, such violence is never, never, never acceptable in America.
09:02 It's undemocratic.
09:03 And it must never be normalized to advance political power.
09:09 And democracy means respecting the institutions that govern a free society.
09:15 That means adhering to the timeless words in the Declaration of Independence.
09:18 We hold these truths to be self-evident.
09:21 A mission statement, embodied in our Constitution, our system of separation of powers and checks
09:28 and balances.
09:30 Our Constitution, the bulwark to prevent the abuse of power to ensure we the people move
09:35 forward together under the law, rather than believing the only way is one way or no way
09:40 at all.
09:41 But our institutions and our democracy are not just of government.
09:45 The institutions of democracy depend on the Constitution and our character, our character,
09:53 and the habits of our hearts and our minds.
09:56 Institutions like the McCain Institute and the new McCain Library that will be built
10:00 at Arizona State University with the funding from the American Rescue Plan, which I signed
10:04 into law when I came to office.
10:09 A library that's going to house John's archives, host dialogue and debate, inspire future leaders
10:18 around the world to serve tens of thousands underserved Arizonans as a reminder of our
10:26 obligation to one another.
10:29 These principles of democracy are essential in a free society, but they have always been
10:33 embattled.
10:35 Today, let's be clear.
10:38 While we've made progress, democracy is still at risk.
10:43 This is not hyperbole.
10:45 It's a simple truth, a simple truth.
10:49 I've made the defense and protection and preservation of American democracy the central issue of
10:54 my presidency.
10:55 From the speech I made at Gettysburg in the inaugural address to the anniversary of June
11:00 6th insurrection, our January 6th insurrection, to Independence Hall in Philadelphia, to the
11:06 speech I made at Union Station in Washington, I've spoken about the danger of election denialism,
11:13 political violence, and the battle for the soul of America.
11:17 Today in America, to honor an institution devoted to the defense of democracy, named
11:23 in honor of a true patriot, I'm here to speak about another threat to our democracy that
11:28 we all too often ignore.
11:30 The threat to our political institutions, to our constitution itself, and the very character
11:36 of our nation.
11:38 Democracy is maintained by adhering to the constitution and the march to perfecting our
11:43 union by protecting and expanding rights with each successive generation, including that
11:48 little guy.
11:49 He's going to talk about it.
11:50 And it's okay.
11:51 In my house, kids prevail, okay?
11:55 This adherence is an -- it's inoptional.
11:59 We can't be situational.
12:01 We can't be only there when it's good for yourself.
12:06 It's constant and unyielding, even when it's easy and most important, when it's hard.
12:12 For centuries, American constitution has been a model for the world, with other countries
12:17 adopting "we the people" as their North Star as well.
12:21 But as we know, we know how damaged our institutions of democracy, the judiciary, the legislature,
12:28 the executive, have become in the eyes of the American people, even the world, from
12:34 attacks within the past few years.
12:37 I know virtually every major world leader.
12:39 That's what I did when I was a senator, as vice president, and now.
12:45 Everywhere I go in the world -- I've met now with over 100 heads of state of the nations
12:51 of the world.
12:52 Everywhere I go, they look and they ask the question, "Is it going to be okay?"
12:58 Think about this.
12:59 The first meeting I attended of the G7, the seven wealthiest nations in the world, in
13:06 Europe, the NATO meeting, I sat down -- it was in February -- January, after we'd been
13:15 elected, the late January -- early February.
13:18 And it was in England.
13:21 And I sat down.
13:22 I said, "America's back."
13:23 And Macron looked at me and he said, "Mr. President, for how long?
13:28 For how long?"
13:30 And then the chancellor of Germany said, "Mr. President, what would you think if you pick
13:35 up the paper tomorrow -- tomorrow, The London Times, and it said 1,000 people broke down
13:41 the doors of Parliament, marched and killed two bobbies in order to overthrow an election
13:46 of the new prime minister?
13:48 What would you think then?
13:49 What would America think?
13:52 What would we think?"
13:54 The leading nation in the world, having gone through what we went through, and many of
13:59 you travel internationally, many of you know people from around the world.
14:06 I'd be surprised if you heard anything different than the concern about, "Are we okay?
14:11 Is the democracy going to be sustained?"
14:15 For that institutional damage, we see distrust and division among our own people.
14:19 I'm here to tell you, we lose these institutions of our government at our own peril.
14:26 And I've always been clear, democracy is not a partisan issue.
14:31 It's an American issue.
14:34 I've come to honor the McCain Institute and Library because they are a home of a proud
14:38 Republican who put his country first.
14:42 Our commitment should be no less, because democracy should unite all Americans, regardless
14:46 of political affiliation.
14:48 And there's something dangerous happening in America now.
14:52 There's an extremist movement that does not share the basic beliefs in our democracy,
14:57 the MAGA movement.
14:59 Not every Republican, not even a majority of Republicans, adhere to the MAGA extremist
15:02 ideology.
15:03 I know because I've been able to work with Republicans my whole career.
15:08 But there's no question that today's Republican Party is driven and intimidated by MAGA Republican
15:13 extremists.
15:16 Their extremist agenda, if carried out, would fundamentally alter the institutions of American
15:20 democracy as we know it.
15:23 My friends, they're not hiding their attacks.
15:27 They're openly promoting them, attacking the free press as the enemy of the people, attacking
15:33 the rule of law as an impediment, fomenting voter suppression and election subversion.
15:40 Did you ever think we'd be having debates at your stage of your careers?
15:43 Or banning books, banning books and burying history?
15:50 Extremists in Congress more determined to shut down the government, to burn the place
15:54 down than to let the people's business be done.
15:58 Our U.S. military, and this is not hyperbole, I've said it for the last two years, is the
16:04 strongest military in the history of the world.
16:09 Not just the strongest in the world, in the history of the world.
16:12 It's the most diverse, the most powerful in the history of the world.
16:17 It's being accused of being weak and woke by the opposition.
16:25 One guy in Alabama is holding up the promotion of every hundreds of these officers.
16:33 Frankly, these extremists have no idea what the hell they're talking about.
16:38 I'm serious.
16:39 They're pushing a notion the defeated former president expressed when he was in office
16:45 and believes it applies only to him.
16:49 This is a dangerous notion.
16:51 This president is above the law, no limits on power.
16:57 Trump says the Constitution gave him, quote, "the right to do whatever he wants as president,"
17:03 end of quote.
17:05 I've never heard a president say that in jest, not guided by the Constitution or by
17:14 comment, service, and decency toward our fellow Americans, but by vengeance and vindictiveness.
17:22 We see the headlines, quote, "sweeping expansion of presidential power."
17:26 The goal to, quote, "alter the balance of power by increasing the president's authority
17:31 over every part of the federal government," end of quote.
17:35 What do they intend to do once they erode the constitutional order of checks and balances
17:40 and separation of powers?
17:43 Limit the independence of federal agencies, put them under the thumb of a president, give
17:49 the president the power to refuse to spend money that Congress has appropriated if he
17:55 doesn't like what is being spent for?
17:58 Not veto, doesn't like what is being spent for.
18:00 It's there.
18:05 Get rid of longstanding protections for civil service.
18:08 Remember what he did as he was leaving office.
18:11 He imposed a new thing, the civil service, but then he imposed a new schedule.
18:17 Schedule F, it was called.
18:20 These civil servants had to pledge loyalty to the president, not the Constitution.
18:28 They did not require any protections of the president being able to wholesale fire them
18:33 if he wanted, because they had no civil service protection.
18:37 One of the first things I got rid of when I became president.
18:43 Just consider these as actual quotes from MAGA, the MAGA movement.
18:47 Quote, "I am your retribution."
18:53 Slitting throats of civil servants, replacing them with extreme political cronies.
18:59 MAGA extremists proclaimed support for law enforcement only to say, quote, "We must destroy
19:04 the FBI."
19:05 It's not one person.
19:08 It's a controlling element of the House Republican Party.
19:15 Whitewash attacks of January 6th by calling the spearing and stomping of police, quote,
19:22 "a legitimate political discourse."
19:25 Did you ever think you'd hear leaders of political parties in the United States of
19:30 America speak like that?
19:32 Seizing power, concentrating power, attempting to abuse power, purging and packing key institutions,
19:41 spewing conspiracy theories, spreading lies for profit and power to divide America in
19:48 every way, inciting violence against those who risk their lives to keep America safe,
19:54 weaponizing against the very soul of who we are as Americans.
20:01 This MAGA threat is a threat to the brick and mortar of our democratic institutions.
20:07 It's also a threat to the character of our nation.
20:11 That gives our constitution life.
20:13 It binds us together as Americans, a common cause.
20:16 None of this is surprising now.
20:19 They've tried to cover it that way before, and thank God they failed.
20:25 But they haven't given up.
20:28 Just look at recent days.
20:30 The accusations against, of treason, treason against a major news network because they
20:37 don't like its coverage.
20:38 I don't know what the hell I'd say about Fox if that becomes the rule.
20:45 But think about it.
20:46 I'm joking.
20:47 Tomorrow, I have the honor of overseeing the change of responsibilities of the chairman
20:53 of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the United States military, from one genuine hero and
20:58 patriot, General Mark Milley, to another, General C.Q.
21:02 Brown, both, both defining leaders of our time.
21:08 And yet here is what you hear from MAGA extremists about the retiring patriot general honoring
21:14 his oath to the Constitution, quote, "He's a traitor," end of quote.
21:22 In times gone by, the punishment, quote, "In times gone by, the punishment would have been
21:26 death," end of quote.
21:32 This is the United States of America.
21:36 This is the United States of America.
21:41 And although I don't believe even a majority of Republicans think that, the silence is
21:47 deafening.
21:48 The silence is deafening.
21:54 Hardly any Republican called out such heinous statements.
21:58 Just as they watched one MAGA senator outrageously instead of blocking the promotions of hundreds
22:02 of top military leaders and affecting not only those leaders, but their families, their
22:09 children.
22:10 MAGA extremists claim support of our troops, but they're harming military readiness, leadership,
22:17 troop morale, freezing pay, freezing military families in limbo.
22:23 Just as they looked the other way when the defeated former president refused to pay respects
22:29 at an American cemetery near Paris, referring to the American servicemen buried there -- and
22:34 I've been to the cemetery -- as "suckers" and "losers," quotes.
22:41 I'm not making this up.
22:44 I know we all tried not to remember it.
22:46 But that's what he said.
22:48 He called servicemen "suckers" and "losers."
22:54 Was John a sucker?
22:59 Was my son Beau, who lived next to a burn pit for a year, came home and died?
23:04 Was he a sucker for volunteering to serve his country?
23:08 The same guy who denigrates the heroism of John McCain.
23:12 It's not only wrong, it's un-American.
23:15 But it never changes.
23:18 The MAGA extremists across the country have made it clear where they stand.
23:22 So the challenge for the rest of America, for the majority of Americans, is to make
23:26 clear where we stand.
23:29 Do we still believe in the Constitution?
23:32 Do we believe in the basic decency and respect?
23:35 The whole country should honestly ask itself -- and I mean it sincerely -- what it wants
23:41 and understand the threats to our democracy.
23:46 I believe very strongly that the defining feature of our democracy is our Constitution.
23:53 I believe in the separation of powers and checks and balances, that debate and disagreement
23:58 do not lead to disunion.
24:00 I believe in free and fair elections and peaceful transfer of power.
24:04 I believe there is no place in America -- none, none, none -- for political violence.
24:11 We have to denounce hate, not embolden it.
24:15 Across the aisle, across the country, I see fellow Americans, not mortal enemies.
24:20 We're a great nation because we're a good people who believe in honor, decency, and
24:28 respect.
24:29 I was able to get the infrastructure bill passed, and it's over a trillion dollars.
24:34 The majority of it so far has gone to red states who didn't vote for me, because I represent
24:40 all -- no, I'm serious.
24:42 I represent all Americans, wherever the need is.
24:49 And I believe every president should be a president for all Americans.
24:54 To use the office of the President to unite the nation, uphold the duty to care for all
24:58 Americans.
25:00 I've tried my very best, and I'm sure I haven't met the test all of you want me to meet, but
25:07 tried my very best to meet the highest standards, whether you voted for me or not, because that's
25:13 the job, to deliver light, not heat, to make sure democracy delivers for everyone, to know
25:22 we're a nation of unlimited possibilities, of wisdom and decency, a nation focused on
25:30 the future.
25:31 I've spent more time with Xi Jinping than any world leader has.
25:36 Sixty-eight hours alone with just he and I and an interpreter.
25:39 Traveled 17,000 miles with him, here and in China.
25:43 On the Tibetan Plateau, he turned to me and he asked me, he said, "Can you define America
25:46 for me?"
25:47 I was deadly earnest.
25:48 I said, "Yes."
25:50 In one word, possibilities.
25:54 We in America believe anything's possible if we try it.
25:58 Anything we do together, we can get done.
26:00 We faced some tough times in recent years, and I'm proud of the progress we made as a
26:05 country.
26:06 But the real credit doesn't go to me and my administration for the progress, for this
26:11 progress, the real heroes in the story are you, the American people.
26:15 That's not hyperbole again, which is why I'm asking you that regardless whether you're
26:18 a Democrat, Republican, or Independent, put the preservation of our democracy before everything
26:24 else.
26:25 Put our country first.
26:28 Over the past few years, we can and should be proud of American democracy, proud of what
26:34 we've been able to hold on to.
26:37 We can't take democracy for granted.
26:39 Remember when you were in high school and college, you took political science, said
26:42 every generation has to protect democracy?
26:45 I used to think that that was just a saying, but here I am as President of the United States
26:51 of America making this speech about my fear of the diminishment of democracy.
27:01 Folks, every generation has to be vigilant.
27:05 You know, toward the end of my Senate campaign, I convinced Strom Thurmond to vote for the
27:11 civil rights legislation.
27:12 Not a joke.
27:16 I thought, well, you can defeat hate.
27:19 You can't defeat it.
27:22 Just bury it.
27:23 When someone comes along and lifts up the rock and breathes a little oxygen in there,
27:28 it comes roaring back.
27:30 It comes roaring back.
27:33 We should all remember democracies don't have to die at the end of a rifle.
27:38 They can die when people are silent, when they fail to stand up or condemn the threats
27:44 to democracy.
27:45 When people are willing to give away that which is most precious to them because they
27:50 feel frustrated, disillusioned, tired, alienated.
27:53 I get it.
27:54 I really do.
27:55 I get it.
27:56 For all its faults, though American democracy remains the best path forward to prosperity,
28:03 possibilities, progress, fair play, equality.
28:09 Democracy requires all of us and all the major parties.
28:14 You matter.
28:15 And again, I'm not just trying to be nice here.
28:18 You matter.
28:20 All of you in this auditorium.
28:22 Because history and common sense tell us that we can change things by adhering to our Constitution
28:28 and our institutions of democracy.
28:30 Our task, our sacred task of our time is to make sure that they change not for the worst,
28:35 but for the better.
28:37 That democracy survives and thrives, not be smashed by a movement more interested in power
28:44 than in principle.
28:45 It's up to us, the American people.
28:48 In my view, the more people vote, the more engaged the whole nation becomes, the stronger
28:56 democracy will be.
28:59 So the answer to the threats we face is engagement.
29:02 It's not to sit in the sidelines.
29:05 It's to build coalitions and community, to remind ourselves there's a clear majority
29:11 of us who believe in our democracy and are ready to protect it.
29:16 To the students here today, young people across the country, you're the reason I'm so optimistic.
29:25 I know I don't look it, but I've been doing this for a long time.
29:29 (Laughter.)
29:30 I'm all kidding aside.
29:31 I've never been more optimistic about America's chances in domestic and foreign policy than
29:36 I am today.
29:37 I really mean it.
29:38 Because the young people, 100,000 students at this university and all across America,
29:44 they are the most gifted, the most tolerant, the most talented, and the best educated generation
29:52 in American history.
29:53 And it's your generation, more than anyone else's, who will answer the questions, the
30:00 legitimate questions the young man asked me a moment ago I'm going to meet with, questions
30:04 for America.
30:05 Who are we?
30:06 What do we stand for?
30:07 What do we believe?
30:08 Who will we be?
30:10 It's not your burden alone, but your generation will not be ignored, will not be shunned,
30:17 will not be silenced.
30:18 I've said it before.
30:21 We're at an inflection point in our history, one of those moments that not only happens
30:26 once every several generations, it happens once every eight or nine generations, where
30:31 the decisions made in the short period of time we're in now are going to determine the
30:35 course of this country and the world for the next six or seven decades.
30:42 So you, me, every American who's committed to preserving our democracy and our constitutional
30:48 protections, we carry a special responsibility.
30:51 We have to stand up for American values embedded in the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence,
30:58 because we know the MAGAF streamers have already proven they won't.
31:04 You know, Madeleine Albright wrote a book, the former Secretary of State, saying we're
31:07 the essential nation.
31:09 We are.
31:10 I think you've sensed an approach, Cindy, haven't you?
31:13 Any room I walk in, no matter what heads of state I'm with, everything stops, not because
31:19 of Joe Biden, but because I'm president of the United States of America.
31:26 We are the essential nation.
31:29 We are the essential nation.
31:31 The rest of the world is looking.
31:35 So we have to stand up for our Constitution, our institutions of democracy, because MAGA
31:39 streamers have made it clear they're not going to.
31:43 Everybody's watching.
31:44 The world is watching.
31:46 Most important, our children and grandchildren will hold us responsible.
31:51 So let me close with this.
31:53 In three years, we'll commemorate the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration
31:59 of Independence, a moment not only about our past, celebrating all we've done, but a moment
32:04 about the future, about all we can be, still be.
32:10 Stand in that moment and ask, what do we want to be?
32:16 Now's our time to continue to choose and secure a sacred cause of the American democracy.
32:21 I know we can meet this moment.
32:24 John knew we could meet this moment.
32:27 He believed in so many patriots before him, the character, destiny, and our own lives
32:33 and the life of this nation.
32:35 He believed in us.
32:38 That's what we see in the McCain Institute and Library and every day places across America
32:44 doing extraordinary things.
32:46 And remember, the soul of America depends on the souls of all Americans, how we choose
32:55 to see our nation, how we choose to see ourselves, how we choose to lead, not only by the example
33:01 of our power, but by the power of our example.
33:06 So let's never quit.
33:08 Let's never hide from history.
33:10 Let's make history.
33:11 If we do that, we'll have done our duty to our country and each other.
33:15 Future generations will say, we kept the faith.
33:19 We'll approve through all its imperfections.
33:23 America is still a place of possibilities, a beacon for the world, a promise realized,
33:28 where the power forever resides with we, the people.
33:32 That's our soul.
33:34 That's who we truly are.
33:36 That's who we must always be.
33:38 And that's why I've never been more optimistic about America's future.
33:41 We just need to remember who we are.
33:42 We are the United States of America.
33:45 There is nothing, nothing beyond our capacity when we act together.
33:50 God bless you all.
33:51 May God bless John McCain and his family.
33:53 And may God protect our troops.
33:55 Thank you.
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