Bureaucracy Is Adept At Protecting Its Nest.

Education Is Like A Diamond With Many Facets: It Includes The Basic Mastery Of Numbers And Letters That Give Us Access To The Treasury Of Human Knowledge, Accumulated And Refined Through The Ages; It Includes Technical And Vocational Training As Well As Instruction In Science, Higher Mathematics, And Humane Letters.

The Same Technology Transforming Our Lives Can Solve The Greatest Problem Of The 20th Century. A Security Shield Can One Day Render Nuclear Weapons Obsolete And Free Mankind From The Prison Of Nuclear Terror. America Met One Historic Challenge And Went To The Moon. Now America Must Meet Another: To Make Our Strategic Defense Real For All The Citizens Of Planet Earth.

I Was 21 And Looking For Work In 1932, One Of The Worst Years Of The Great Depression. And I Can Remember One Bleak Night In The Thirties When My Father Learned On Christmas Eve That He'd Lost His Job. To Be Young In My Generation Was To Feel That Your Future Had Been Mortgaged Out From Under You, And That's A Tragic Mistake We Must Never Allow Our Leaders To Make Again.

America Has Not Been A Story Or A Byword. That Small Community Of Pilgrims Prospered And, Driven By The Dreams And, Yes, By The Ideas Of The Founding Fathers, Went On To Become A Beacon To All The Oppressed And Poor Of The World.

Government Is Like A Baby. An Alimentary Canal With A Big Appetite At One End And No Sense Of Responsibility At The Other.