I know you didn’t do this just to win an and I know you didn’t do it for me. You did it because you understand the of the task that lies ahead. For even as we celebrate tonight, we know the challenges that tomorrow will bring are the greatest of our lifetime - two wars, a planet in , the worst financial in a century. Even as we stand here tonight, we know there are brave Americans waking up in the deserts of Iraq and the mountains of Afghanistan to their lives for us. There are mothers and fathers who will lie after their children fall and wonder how they’ll the mortgage, or their doctors bills, or save enough for college. There is new energy to harness and new jobs to be created; new schools to build and threats to meet and to repair.
The ahead will be long. Our climb will be . We may not get there in one year or even one term, but America - I have never been more hopeful than I am tonight that we will get there. I promise you - we as a people will get .