I still believe that we are one people. I still believe that together, we can do great things, even when the odds are long. I believe this because over and over in my six years in office, I have seen America at its best. I’ve seen the hopeful faces of young graduates from New York to California; and our newest officers at West Point, Annapolis, Colorado Springs, and New London. I’ve mourned with grieving families in Tucson and Newtown; in Boston, West, Texas, and West Virginia. I’ve watched Americans beat back adversity from the Gulf Coast to the Great Plains; from Midwest assembly lines to the Mid-Atlantic seaboard. I’ve seen something like gay marriage go from a wedge issue used to drive us apart to a story of freedom across our country, a civil right now legal in states that seven in ten Americans call home.
Mheshimiwa Spika; Wakati nalihutubia Bunge la Tisa tarehe 30 Desemba 2005 niliahidi kwamba Serikali itafanya kila iwezalo kuhakikisha Tanzania inakuwa na uhusiano mzuri na mataifa mengine duniani, na mashirika ya kimataifa na kikanda. Leo, miaka 10 baadae napenda kuwahakikishia kuwa ahadi yetu tumeitekeleza, tena vizuri kuliko tulivyotegemea. Tanzania ni rafiki wa kila nchi na kila shirika la kanda na kimataifa.