Well, good morning, everyone. What a pleasure to see a full crowd here tonight. I mentioned to the president that i was worried about the crowd showing up and he said dont worry, theyll be here. Its like field of dreams, they will come. We built it. Thank you for coming out and braving the roads this morning. My name is gary greg, the director of Mcconnell Center, and its been a pleasure of mine to be able to work with the students of the Mcconnell Scholars Program and many of you in the audience over the last 17 years. Over those years weve had some of the most consequential leaders in America Today visited with us, spoken to us here at the university of louisville and i think that today is no exception to that. We have been able to host, for instance, moments of historic importance like vicepresident biden here the day that mubarak resigned in egypt. And we broke news and had some very important things happen in the louisville tarmac that morning. Secretary of state colin powell deli
Thank you very much. I want to express my gratitude to you for your service. View, a done, in my seamless job of plugging the gap. When this program started in the early 1990s, i had no idea it could develop into what it had become. I hope youll join me in thanking him for the good job. [applause] weve had a lot of interesting speakers over the years. There might be none more interesting than our guests this morning. You brooklyn. Mer is from always associate a smell of triple x roche sprayed with love. It was his hard work day in and day out that took this kid from brooklyn to the United States and it. It is also why last year Time Magazine named him one of the most influential people. He was elected to the new York State Assembly at the age of 23. In his memoir, chuck remembered his parents actually did not want him to run. Basically life of a corporate lawyer was to be 6 respectable and comfortable. But chuck, my life would have been a lot easier if you had listened to your parents.
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We primarily measure our increasing growth not by how many people walked through the doors, but by the capacity and openness of our hearts. Our hearts has four chambers. Four core practices that obligate us. We are loving kindness in which we take care of each other at every stage in life. We are justice in which were obligated to redefine the very we of who is in this world. These walls may protect us but mostly theyre meant to come down so there can be all of us. We are prayer. We pray like our life depends on it and we work first fiercely is as if our prayers do not matter. Lastly, we are sacred text. We never stop plumbing their depths of it wisdom that continues to and the middle. Rabbi holtzblatt you dont have to be a member to join us. Just come. Join us for meditation and prayer, come and have a conversation and coffee. We actually have good coffee. So you came here tonight for Justice Ginsburg, a hero, an absolute hero. [applause] i we couldtt not think of someone to be with u
Senatorers namesake Mitch Mcconnell introduced senator schumer and they talked about the relationship. Thank you very much. I want to express my gratitude to you for your service. View, a done, in my seamless job of plugging the gap. When this program started in the early 1990s, i had no idea it could develop into what it had become. I hope youll join me in thanking him for the good job. [applause] weve had a lot of interesting speakers over the years. There might be none more interesting than our guests this morning. You brooklyn. Mer is from always associate a smell of triple x roche sprayed with love. It was his hard work day in and day out that took this kid from brooklyn to the United States and it. It is also why last year Time Magazine named him one of the most influential people. He was elected to the new York State Assembly at the age of 23. In his memoir, chuck remembered his parents actually did not want him to run. Basically life of a corporate lawyer was to be 6 respectabl