I Feel Like Every Day, Every Minute

A Lot Of The People In History Who I Really Admire Lived Before The Hyperinformation Age We're Living In. Even If They Were Governing Or Solving Problems In Consequential Periods, Like The Civil War Or The World Wars Or The Great Depression Or The Cold War, They Had A Period Of Time And Space To Actually Think, To Be Private And You Read Their Biographies, And They Had Time To Think About What Was Happening And How To Respond. I Don't Think Human Nature Has Changed In The Last 50-150 Years, But The Stresses, The Demands On Those Of Us In Public Life Have Just Exploded.

I Think What President [barack] Obama Has Done Is To Chart A Steady Course. When I Was There, The First Four Years We Had A Lot Of Cleanup To Do. We Inherited A Lot Of Bad Feelings From The [george W.] Bush Administration, And Much Of What I Spent My Time Doing Was Traveling Around The World Reassuring Friends And Allies.

That Is What I Want To Make Clear Today. A Man With A Long History Of Racial Discrimination, Who Traffics In Dark Conspiracy Theories Drawn From The Pages Of Supermarket Tabloids And The Far, Dark Reaches Of The Internet, Should Never Run Our Government Or Command Our Military.

When You're Facing A Difficult Issue That You Absolutely Can Do Nothing About - I Can't Fly The Plane; I Can't Change The Weather - Falling Asleep, You'll Either Wake Up And Things Will Be Fine Or You Won't.

We Have To Build An Economy That Works For Everyone, Not Just Those At The Top. That Means We Need New Jobs, Good Jobs, With Rising Incomes.