Barack Obama

I face this challenge with profound humility, and knowledge of my own limitations. But ... I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal; this was the moment when we ended a war and secured our nation and restored our image as the last, best hope on Earth.

—Barack Obama's victory speech in St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbbIQFcEhcQ