It's good to see you again and thank you for having me here today.
I mean that sincerely.
I joked with you earlier when I said we Bidens are like poor relatives.
We show up when we're invited, stay longer than we should, eat all your food, and don't know when to go home.
But you've been very, very generous and hospitable.
Thank you.
I'm proud, excuse me, very proud, to be the first American president to visit Angola.
And I'm deeply proud of everything we have done together to transform our partnership thus far.
There's so much ahead of us, so much we can do.
The results so far speak for themselves.
Building an ocean access railway, ocean to ocean access railway that's going to connect the continent from west to east for the first time in history.
Investing in solar energy projects, going to help Angola generate 75% of its clean energy by next year, by next year.
Upgrading internet and communications infrastructure to connect all of Angola's high-speed internet networks.
As we're doing that at home ourselves, I compare it to when Franklin Roosevelt took electricity to rural America.
It didn't exist in rural America.
The government provided it.
Well, it's hard to get by these days in business or ranching or anything else without access to the internet, knowing what's going on, when to sell your product and the like, it's critical.
And excuse me, and increasing our agriculture production so Angolans can feed themselves and quite frankly, the rest of the world in making a profit doing it.
Providing work, providing opportunity, providing muscle to your economy.
And increased agriculture production so Angolans, I said, can not only feed themselves, but it's hard for people in a country that only has the borders of the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean to understand that it's hard to get a product from one country to another and then badly need of agricultural products, but you can't get there.
If you get there, you not only help those people, but you help yourself and you grow your economy.
And you've heard me say it before, Mr. President.
The United States is all in on Africa.
All in on Africa.
And I think a testament to that assertion I've made to you when I saw you and I've made publicly before.
You've heard me say it before, but the United States is all in, all in Angola.
We've already, my administration alone, has invested over $3 billion in Angola thus far.
The future of the world is here in Africa and in Angola.
So during this visit, I look forward to discussing how we keep ensuring democracy delivers for people because if they don't think it's a democracy, they don't think they're in on a deal.
They don't think they're part of it.
And you've been working very hard to establish good democracy here.
And secondly, how can we help build strong ties between our nations and our businesses and our people?
There's a lot to say on all of this, I know.
We're prepared to, I think we're well on our way to answering a lot of the questions, but I think you should understand the extent to which we're prepared to be engaged.
And as I said to the president, ours is not, we don't think because we're bigger and we're more powerful, but we're smarter.
We don't think we have all the answers.
But we're prepared to hear your answers to the needs you have, particularly answers to international debt financing and a whole range of other things we're prepared to discuss.
So I want to thank you very much for your personal welcome.
I want to thank all of your colleagues for treating us so well since we've been here.
And I mean it from the bottom of my heart.
The future of the world is in Africa.
That's not hyperbole.
It's going to be a billion people very shortly in this continent, a very diverse continent.
And by another 20 years, you'll be the largest country in the world, continent in the world.
And so we need you to succeed.
This isn't all selfless.
The more you succeed, the more we succeed, the more the world succeeds.
So thank you for being willing to have me, been willing to talk to me, and I look forward to a long relationship.
Thank you very much.
Mr. President, we're going to go to the Carolina Time Everyone here.
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