US Presidency
2009

But I have every confidence that if we are willing to continue doing the critical work that must be done by each of us, by all of us then we will leave this struggling economy behind us, and come out on the other side, more prosperous as a people. For our American story is not and has never been about things coming easy. It's about rising to the moment when the moment is hard, and converting crisis into opportunity, and seeing to it that we emerge from whatever trials we face stronger than we were before. It's about rejecting the notion that our fate is somehow written for us, and instead laying claim to a destiny of our own making. That's what earlier generations of Americans have done, that's what we owe our children, that's what we are doing today. Thank you, Colorado. Let's get to work. Thank you