Today you raised your hand and have taken an oath of citizenship.
Editor's note · Context
Remarks at a Naturalization Ceremony for Active Duty Servicemembers
Share & report
More from Barack Obama
Dick Durbin has always fought the good fight on behalf of working families, and his integrity shines through in everything he does.
Some of you know when I was growing up, I didn't have a father in the house. But I did have people around me, stepfather, grandparents, teachers, coaches and most of all my mother, who tried to teach me the difference between right and wrong, who showed me what it meant to be honest and responsible to work hard, to treat other people the way I wanted to be treated.
And one of the most disturbing things about this election and about Trump's rise in politics is how we seem to have set the values we were taught aside, how we seem to disregard them, how we pretend they don't matter.





