If we're actually going to deal with the legacy of Dr. King, if we're going to deal with this issue of poverty -- and I have a comprehensive plan to do that, it is the cause of my life, to end poverty in this country -- we also have to include all Americans in this stimulus plan.
Thisis the point at which I usually become frustrated and abandon my plan or in the past, I might have gotten so resentful and self righteous that I may not have even been aware that I abandoned my goal!
What I plan to take with me from this experience is that when my actions do not match my own words- when I am delaying or not pushing forward on something I say I want- there is a reason.
And as I plan for my trip later this week to Asia, the whole focus is on how are we going to open up markets so that American businesses can prosper, and we can sell more goods and create more jobs here in the United States.
But what I told my former colleagues today is that we simply cannot allow differences over individual elements of thisplan to prevent us from meeting our responsibility to solve a longstanding and urgent problem for the American people.