The Future Belongs To Those Who Are

People Ought To Be Going Over This, Finding Things They Don't Like. Congress Has Clearly Proved They Can Act In A Hurry. If There's Something Wrong With It, It Can Be Amended. If Something Needs To Be Kicked In, It Can Be Put In. If Something Needs To Be Taken Out, It Can Be Taken Out.

The Divide Of Race Has Been America's Constant Curse. Each New Wave Of Immigrants Gives New Targets To Old Prejudices. Prejudice And Contempt, Cloaked In The Pretense Of Religious Or Political Conviction, Are No Different. They Have Nearly Destroyed Us In The Past. They Plague Us Still. They Fuel The Fanaticism Of Terror. They Torment The Lives Of Millions In Fractured Nations Around The World. These Obsessions Cripple Both Those Who Are Hated And, Of Course, Those Who Hate, Robbing Both Of What They Might Become.

If You Voluntarily Quit In The Face Of Adversity, You'll Wonder About It For The Rest Of Your Life.

I Believe We Can Do Much More To Adapt To The Structural Changes In The Global Economy, Get High-end Manufacturing Back Here, Set Up Clusters Of Economic Activity Where You Have, Among Other Things, Continuous Retraining Of People Well Into Their Middle Years So They Never Become Irrelevant To The Current Job Market.

Our Paradigm Now Seems To Be: Something Terrible Happened To Us On September 11, And That Gives Us The Right To Interpret All Future Events In A Way That Everyone Else In The World Must Agree With Us. And If They Don't, They Can Go Straight To Hell.