Hi.
I'm former Secretary of State Colin Powell.
One hundred years ago, a young immigrant left
a dirt farm in Jamaica and set out for America.
Three years later, a ship pulled into New
York Harbor, and a young Jamaican woman gazed
up at the Statue of Liberty for the first
time.
They became my parents, and they inspired
me to finish college and join the Army.
This began a journey of service that would
take me from basic training to combat in Vietnam,
up the ranks to serve as chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff and secretary of state.
The values I learned growing up in the South
Bronx and serving in uniform were the same
values that Joe Biden's parents instilled
in him in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
I support Joe Biden for the presidency of
the United States because those values still
define him, and we need to restore those values
to the White House.
Our country needs a commander in chief who
takes care of our troops in the same way he
would his own family.
For Joe Biden, that doesn't need teaching.
It comes from the experience he shares with
millions of military families—sending his
beloved son off to war and praying to God
he would come home safe.
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Joe Biden will be a president we will all
be proud to salute.
With Joe Biden in the White House, you will
never doubt that he will stand with our friends
and stand up to our adversaries—never the
other way around.
He will trust our diplomats and our intelligence
community, not the flattery of dictators and
despots.
He will make it his job to know when anyone
dares to threaten us.
He will stand up to our adversaries with strength
and experience.
They will know he means business.
I support Joe Biden because on Day One he
will restore America's leadership and our
moral authority.
He'll be a president who knows America is
strongest when, as he has said, "We lead both
by the power of our example and the example
of our power."
He will restore America's leadership in the
world and restore the alliances we need to
address the dangers that threaten our nation,
from climate change to nuclear proliferation.
Today, we are a country divided, and we have
a president doing everything in his power
to make it that way and keep us that way.
What a difference it will make to have a president
who unites us, who restores our strength and
our soul.
I still believe that in our hearts, we are
the same America that brought my parents to
our shores, an America that inspires freedom
around the world.
That's the America Joe Biden will lead as
our next president.
Thank you very much.
