With Barack Obama, we will turn the page on the old politics of misrepresentation and distortion. With Barack Obama we will close the book on the old politics of race against race.
Interpretation
This quote expresses hope for a change in political discourse and unity under Barack Obama's leadership.
Edward Kennedy's quote emphasizes the significance of Barack Obama's presidency as a transformative moment in American politics. He suggests that with Obama's leadership, there will be a shift away from divisive and misleading political tactics, particularly those that exploit racial tensions. This reflects a desire for a more honest and inclusive political environment where citizens can work together towards common goals.
In practice
This quote can be used in a speech about the impact of political leadership on social issues.
Immigrant families have integrated themselves into our communities, establishing deep roots. Whenever they have settled, they have made lasting contributions to the economic vitality and diversity of our communities and our nation. Our economy depends on these hard-working, taxpaying workers. They have assisted America in its economic boom.
We know the future will outlast all of us, but I believe that all of us will live on in the future we made.
What we have in the United States is not so much a health-care system as a disease-care system.
Regulation has gone astray. . . . Either because they have become captives of regulated industries or captains of outmoded administrative agencies, regulators all too often encourage or approve unreasonably high prices, inadequate service, and anticompetitive behavior. The cost of this regulation is always passed on to the consumer. And that cost is astronomical.
We want to support our troops because they didn't make the decision to go there... but I don't think it should be open-ended. We ought to have a benchmark where the administration has to come back and give us a report.
Individual faults and frailties are no excuse to give in - and no exemption from the common obligation to give of ourselves.
I love America more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
Why is the Keystone Pipeline the very first, #1 item on the Republicans' agenda? We know that this pipeline runs terrible environmental risks and it just won't do much for the American people. So why is this bill so urgent? Money and power.
Five decades ago, as India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, began visibly ailing, the nation and the world were consumed by the question: 'After Nehru, who?' The inexpressible fear lay in the subtext to the question: 'After Nehru, what?'
Would they not fear that citizens not less tenacious than conscious of their rights would flock from the remotest extremes of their respective states to the places of election, to overthrow their tyrants, and to substitute men who would be disposed to avenge the violated majesty of the people?
The politician's promises of yesterday are the taxes of today.
The U.S.'s major strength factor and weapon is its economy. If you cripple it, you cripple the military.
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