Japanese Sentences with English Translations - Sentences [でした]

I want to thank my partner in this journey, a man who campaigned from his heart, and spoke for the men and women he grew up with on the streets of Scranton, and rode with on the train home to Delaware, the vice president-elect of the United States, Joe Biden.

And I would not be standing here tonight without the unyielding support of my best friend for the last 16 years, the rock of our family, the love of my life, the nation's next first lady, Michelle Obama.

And while she's no longer with us, I know my grandmother's watching, along with the family that made me who I am.

I miss them tonight. I know that my debt to them is beyond measure.

But above all, I will never forget who this victory truly belongs to. It belongs to you. It belongs to you.

It was built by working men and women who dug into what little savings they had to give $5 and $10 and $20 to the cause.

This is your victory.

You did it because you understand the enormity of the task that lies ahead.

For even as we celebrate tonight, we know the challenges that tomorrow will bring are the greatest of our lifetime — two wars, a planet in peril, the worst financial crisis in a century.

There are mothers and fathers who will lie awake after the children fall asleep and wonder how they'll make the mortgage or pay their doctors' bills or save enough for their child's college education.

Our climb will be steep.

There will be setbacks and false starts.

There are many who won't agree with every decision or policy I make as president.

This victory alone is not the change we seek.

It is only the chance for us to make that change.

And that cannot happen if we go back to the way things were.

In this country, we rise or fall as one nation, as one people.

Those are values that we all share.

As Lincoln said to a nation far more divided than ours, we are not enemies but friends.

I need your help. And I will be your president, too.