you re sitting a high school bleachers of the gym your one if your name will even be called. in august it will be my 33rd wedding anniversary. is the best decision i have ever made in life. almost exactly 13 years ago at my wife and children and i stood in our front yard and announced a bid for congress. life it goes fast every section of our minds get full. looking back can be educational, therapeutic, inspiring make us grateful and sympathetic and wise. we have been meeting here on sunday nights for a year now. a lot has happened in our country and around the world. they withdrawal of u.s. troops in afghanistan the death of american soldiers on that lingering question of what we got for what we paid with the lives of american soldiers over the course of the past 20 years we have borne witness to the war in ukraine, the threat to democracy the mixed messages from some in this country whether we should support it democracy or brutal dictators and gas prices inflation crime go
is going to happen. that is where the real uncertainty lies. it s one of the great dualisms of life. we look back on the one thing we cannot change and spend less time on the one thing we can change which is what is left of today and tomorrow. so where do you want to be in a year personally? as a community? as a state? as a nation? do you ever get tired of the constant negativity? do you wonder where the stories on good cops and good prosecutors are? you wonder where the acts of kindness are? we see the crime what about the goodness of america? do you wonder why the loudest voices in politics are the ones who get all of the attention? do you wonder why sports tend to highlight the celebration after the touchdown more than the teamwork that led to the touchdown. we all look back, that is the
you re sitting a high school bleachers of the gym your one if your name will even be called. in august it will be my 33rd wedding anniversary. is the best decision i have ever made in life. almost exactly 13 years ago at my wife and children and i stood in our front yard and announced a bid for congress. life it goes fast every section of our minds get full. looking back can be educational, therapeutic, inspiring make us grateful and sympathetic and wise. we have been meeting here on sunday nights for a year now. a lot has happened in our country and around the world. they withdrawal of u.s. troops in afghanistan the death of american soldiers on that lingering question of what we got for what we paid with the lives of american soldiers over the course of the past 20 years we have borne witness to the war in ukraine, the threat to democracy the mixed messages
high. he released a little bit of endorphin every single time you are grateful. that builds up your resiliency so you can handle all of the things that come at you at in life in a better way. one thing it does for your heart. it also might do something for your brain break access by what you on every sunday night you re one of my favorite people. one of the most respected people in all of television. dana perino thank you so very much for. thank you. greg: turning to souther witnessing expensing first-hand as democracy is hard. democracy requires work and participation, often times some give and take. what is the state of our democracy question of polling indicates certain pessimism among our fellow citizens. a belief that perhaps our best days are behind as per the divisions are too much to overcome for the good thing about democracy is the fallacy or the truth of those predictions is squarely in our hands. we control our destiny.
different interests. but when you look to the future do you have an idea of what you want to come about? i do trey. one of the things i focused on is because of the life of a man a well lived, chick-fil-a operator is my mentor pretty set a mission to positively impact the lives of 1 billion people with the message of hope and possibility hope in the good lord above for it opportunity important principles and financial literacy. why look in the future one of the things i hope to achieve it s a better understanding and appreciation my hope is so important why financial literacy is a part of hope. i hope we focus our attention on making sure every kid in every zip code has quality education because you have have said and i have repeated, education is the closest thing to magic in america. so if we can bring that quality education into the four zip codes will change government dependency. will change incarceration rates.