QUOTES
While
we spend much of our time and a great deal of our treasure in preparing for war,
we see no comparable effort to establish a lasting peace. Meanwhile.those advocates
who work for world peace by urging a system of world government are called impractical
dreamers. Those impractical dreamers are entitled to ask their critics what is
so practical about war."
Well,
it was quite a century, the best of times, the worst of times; and as we run down
now toward the end of it, we can all recite our litany of despair: overpopulation;
pollution; a faltering educational system; the rich getting richer, the poor getting
poorer; racial tension; drugs; too many guns. But you know, if there's anything
I've learned, it is that we Americans do have a way of rising to the challenges
that confront us. Just when it seems we're most divided, we suddenly show a remarkable
solidarity. The 20th century may be leaving us with a host of problems, but I've
also noted that it does seem darkest before the dawn. There's reason to hope for
the 21st century. And that's the way it will be.
America's
health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.
I
think it is absolutely essential in a democracy to have competition in the media,
a lot of competition, and we seem to be moving away from that.
