Our opponents maintain that we are confronted with insurmountable political obstacles, but that may be said of the smallest obstacle if one has no desire to surmount it.
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Nothing is an obstacle unless you say it is.
We have to knock down the barriers erected by greed, special interests, powerful forces.
The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.
I believe our inability to achieve victory stems mainly from having lost sight as a nation of what it means to win.
We know we're up against the wall. We know how difficult a challenge it is, being in the minority.
We are a nation that seeks out solutions and refuses to ignore challenges.
Today, the biggest challenge we must meet is the one we present to ourselves. To not become a nation that places entitlement ahead of accomplishment. To not become a country that places comfortable lies ahead of difficult truths. To not become a people that thinks so little of ourselves that we demand no sacrifice from each other.
There are many challenges, there are many obstacles; let us try to change the obstacles to advantages.
Unfortunately, the true force which propels our endless political disputes, our constant struggles for political advantage, is often not our burning concern for democracy, it is often of our dedication to the principle of the rule of law.
When we contend, let us contend for all our rights - the doubtful and the certain, the unimportant and essential. It is as easy to contend, or even more so, for the whole as for a part. At the termination of the contest, secure all that our wisdom and valour and the fortune of war will permit.
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