This Century Can Be Greatest Era in American History

well the balconies always on the top great thank you for having it's a it's a real honor to be here thank you very much it's great to be back in South Carolina a

place that %HESITATION believed in me in fact you're former senator Jim the first person in Washington supported me when the

only people that thought I could win all of them my and for them were under the age of so but it's an honor and a pleasure to be with here

mother was one of seven girls that were raised by a disabled fatherhood had polio when he was a child and he really struggle to provide they

met they got married they work hard they tried as much as they could but they were like most of the people never live no

matter how hard they try I couldn't get ahead income from a rich ripping up politically connected so nineteen fifty six they made the decision to leave behind the only country they had ever come

to the one place on earth where people like them to have a chance here in America my parents never became richer they worked hard and I persevered father

the bartender my mother was a cashier may stock market came like I said they were never rich or famous but they were successful they

were successful because just less than a decade removed from that despair that I described they found a job they owned a home they

raised a family and they left all four of their children better off their stories not that unusual in the twenties the

upon not once but twice to help the world confront and defeat our economy was the envy of the an economy that had millions of jobs including for people like my parents with

limited skills but that paid enough for them to achieve a better life there's questions about whether America is still the most powerful country in the China

is increasingly claiming territory in the South China Sea lottery Putin invades neighbor Iran continues to carry out its efforts to dominate the Middle East and

radical jihadists to behead Christians and even conduct the class tax America under Barack Obama appears unable

to do anything at home there's questions about with the American dream will survive from yet millions of people now living paycheck to paycheck working

hard one I expect away from Qatar millions of young Americans that went to school and got a degree and now they own thousands

historic and dramatic but we are still led by too many people who are true by ideas that no long what I don't reminds us is that we already hinge

moment in our nation's who where we must decide whether we will embrace the future and confront its channel or be left behind by his and

if we choose to embrace the future I want you to believe as I but the twenty first century will not just be as good as the twentieth it

will be back and the American dream will not just survive it'll reach more people and change more like than ever before but

to do this we have to wake up to the reality that yesterday is the time has come to turn the page to

be proud of our history but to embrace our future America's always been a and put in place an agenda that allows us once again not

just to reclaim the American dream but to expand it to reach more and change more lives than it ever has it began by

accepting the mantle of global leadership by understanding because there's no nation in the world that can do it instead of us and

that begins by having the strongest military power in the world nnj