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Barack Obama - New Hampshire Primary Speech
1. Well, first of all, I want to congratulate Senator Clinton on a hard-fought victory here in
New Hampshire. She did an outstanding job. Give her a big round of applause.
2. You know, a few weeks ago, no one imagined that we'd have accomplished what we did
here tonight in New Hampshire. No one could have imagined it. For most of this campaign, we
were far behind. We always knew our climb would be steep. But in record numbers, you came
out, and you spoke up for change. And with your voices and your votes, you made it clear that at
this moment, in this election, there is something happening in America.
3. There is something happening when men and women in Des Moines and Davenport, in
Lebanon and Concord, come out in the snows of January to wait in lines that stretch block after
block because they believe in what this country can be.
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who've never participated in politics before, turn out in numbers we have never seen because
they know in their hearts that this time must be different.
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Hampshire, Nevada or South Carolina, we are ready to take this country in a fundamentally new
direction.
7. That's what's happening in America right now; change is what's happening in America.
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texto. and Clique aqui para digitar texto. into this campaign, you can be the new majority who
can lead this nation out of a long political darkness.
8. Democrats, independents and Republicans who are tired of the division and
distraction that has clouded Washington, who know that we can disagree without being
disagreeable, who understand that, if we mobilize our voices to challenge the money and
influence that stood in our way and challenge ourselves to reach for something better, there is no
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cannot fulfill. Our new American majority can end the outrage of unaffordable, unavailable
health care in our time. We can bring doctors and patients, workers and businesses, Democrats
and Republicans together, and we can tell the drug and insurance industry that, while they get a
seat at the table, they don't get to buy every chair, not this time, not now.
9. Our new majority can end the tax breaks for corporations that ship our jobs overseas and
put a middle-class tax cut in the pockets of working Americans who deserve it.
10. We can stop sending our children to schools with corridors of shame and start putting
them on a pathway to success. We can Clique aqui para digitar texto. talking about how great
teachers are and Clique aqui para digitar texto. rewarding them for their greatness by giving
them more pay and more support. We can do this with our new majority.
11. Clique aqui para digitar texto. harness the ingenuity of farmers and scientists, citizens and
entrepreneurs to free this nation from the tyranny of oil and save our planet from a point of no
return. And when I am president of the United States, we will end this war in Iraq and bring our
troops home.
