They gave me a legacy, and with that legacy comes a responsibility, and I am dedicated to making my country an even better America, to making our government an even truer democracy, and because of the heroes that I have and the struggles that we've gone through, I can stand before you as a gay Japanese-American, but even more than that, I am a proud American.
Ostavili su mi naslijeđe, a s tim naslijeđem dolazi i odgovornost. Ja sam posvećen tome da moja Amerika bude još bolja zemlja, da naša Vlada bude istinski demokratska, i zahvaljujući mojim herojima i poteškoćama kroz koje smo prošli sada mogu stajati pred vama kao gay Amerikanac japanskog podrijetla, ali još više od toga, ja sam ponosni Amerikanac.