English subtitles for clip: File:The Final Minutes of President Obama's Farewell Address- Yes, we can..webm
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1 00:00:03,420 --> 00:00:07,190 My fellow Americans, it has been 2 00:00:07,191 --> 00:00:08,931 the honor of my life to serve you. 3 00:00:08,926 --> 00:00:10,256 (Applause.) 4 00:00:10,260 --> 00:00:12,700 I won't stop. 5 00:00:12,696 --> 00:00:15,036 In fact, I will be right there with you, 6 00:00:15,032 --> 00:00:22,602 as a citizen, for all my remaining days. 7 00:00:22,606 --> 00:00:24,946 But for now, whether you are young or whether 8 00:00:24,942 --> 00:00:28,782 you're young at heart, I do have one final ask of 9 00:00:28,779 --> 00:00:32,679 you as your President -- the same thing I asked 10 00:00:32,683 --> 00:00:36,453 when you took a chance on me eight years ago. 11 00:00:36,453 --> 00:00:39,923 I'm asking you to believe. 12 00:00:39,923 --> 00:00:42,363 Not in my ability to bring about change -- 13 00:00:42,359 --> 00:00:44,459 but in yours. 14 00:00:44,461 --> 00:00:47,531 I am asking you to hold fast to that faith written 15 00:00:47,531 --> 00:00:50,131 into our founding documents; 16 00:00:50,134 --> 00:00:54,504 that idea whispered by slaves and abolitionists; that spirit 17 00:00:54,505 --> 00:00:57,945 sung by immigrants and homesteaders and those who 18 00:00:57,941 --> 00:01:03,251 marched for justice; that creed reaffirmed by those 19 00:01:03,247 --> 00:01:05,917 who planted flags from foreign battlefields to 20 00:01:05,916 --> 00:01:09,256 the surface of the moon; a creed at the core of every 21 00:01:09,253 --> 00:01:13,253 American whose story is not yet written: 22 00:01:13,257 --> 00:01:14,287 Yes, we can. 23 00:01:14,291 --> 00:01:15,591 (Applause.) 24 00:01:15,592 --> 00:01:17,662 Yes, we did. 25 00:01:17,661 --> 00:01:18,861 Yes, we can. 26 00:01:18,862 --> 00:01:20,132 (Applause.) 27 00:01:20,130 --> 00:01:20,930 Thank you. 28 00:01:20,931 --> 00:01:22,901 God bless you. 29 00:01:22,900 --> 00:01:26,670 May God continue to bless the United States of America. 30 00:01:26,670 --> 00:01:29,940 (Applause.)