“It’s been kind of eerie. He’s a real ballast for everyone. I’ve been struck by the fluency with which he moves from one issue to another. I remember one day he was briefed on the North Korea missile launch situation, then there was a meeting on GM and Chrysler, then a briefing on the Afghanistan policy, and there was another meeting on GM and Chrysler. And then (White House Chief of Staff) Rahm Emanuel came into my office and said Fargo (North Dakota) was under water and, at that point, it became a West Wing (former NBC TV show) episode.”
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“Remember that there is art to medicine as well as science, and that warmth, sympathy, and understanding may outweigh the surgeon’s knife or the chemist’s drug..may I long experience the joy of healing those who seek my help”
“Because of modern technological evolution and our global economy, our world has greatly changed: it has become much smaller. Our perceptions have not evolved at the same pace; we continue to cling to old national demarcations and the old feelings of ‘us’ and ‘them’.”
“Science and Technology is the most crucial tool to a brighter future. It will cure cancer, boost economies, improve aid and take us places, previously considered to only exist in fiction and fairy tales.”
“America goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own. She will commend the general cause by the countenance of her voice, and the benignant sympathy of her example.”
One of the biggest problems with today’s failing economy, is the incompetency of our workers, which I believe is directly caused by lack of education in Americans today. Imagine a country, where everybody got “A” s in school, and went on to college and got college degrees. Image the power, competency, and success of the workforce that would result in such a country and imagine the impact it would have in said country.
I know the idea of every child who enters a US school getting all “A”s and going on to get college …