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If we have major geographic areas within our continent that have a tremendous lack of economic opportunity, we found that that is going to produce instability _ economic, political and social. ”
Natural resources are so vast that no single individual or business is going to protect them; they don't have an incentive to. ”
I think transportation and corrections are not the first two areas that I would go looking for massive change. ”
The system that had grown up in most states is that wealthy districts with an affluent population can afford to spend a lot more on their public school systems than the poorer districts. ”
I suggest to you that increasing the size of America's economic pie - which can be achieved only if everybody has a seat at the table - is the most important challenge facing our country today. ”
People aren't stupid. I mean, people remember in 1990, the unemployment rate was 10 percent. Now it's 4 _ percent. We've got 1/4 million jobs that we've created. ”
The unemployment rate is still twice as high for blacks as for whites. ”
Personally, I do not believe that we shall have greater armaments in the future than we have had in the past. On the contrary, I believe there will be a gradual diminution in this respect. ”
Hate and mistrust are the children of blindness. ”
Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment. ”