World is so poor, when just one week of military expenditure can bring all children to classrooms. I refuse to accept that all the laws and constitutions and police and judges, are unable to protect our children. I refuse to accept that the slavery can be stronger than freedom. I refuse to accept here. My only aim in life is that every child is free to be a child. Free to grow, free to eat, sleep, and see the light. Free to love and laugh and cry. Free to play and learn. Free to go to school. And tree to dream. I have the privilege of working with many courageous people, who have the same aim. We have never given up on any threat or attack, we will never. We have made progress in a couple of year, couple of decades. We have reduced the number of out of School Children by half. We have reduced the number of child laborers by a third. We have reduced child mortality, malnutrition, and we have prevented millions of child deaths. But let us make no mistake, the great challenges still remai
[ applause ] [ speak being foreigning Foreign Language ] [ speaking Foreign Language ] friends, Noble Committee inviting me to present a lecture. Respectfully, i am unable to do that, because i am presenting here, the sound of silence. The cry of innocence, and the face of invisibility. Those children who are left behind. Thats why, i have kept an empty chair as to remind us. As a reminder. I have come here only to share the voices and dreams of our children. Because they are all our children. I have looked into their frighteppfrigh frightened and exhausted eyes. I have held their injured bodies and have felt their broken spirits. 20 years ago, in the foot hills, a small, skinny child. He asked me, is the world so poor, instead of forcing me to take a gun. A child soldier that was kidnapped boy an extremist militia. As his first lesson, he was forced to kill his friends and family. He asked me, what is my fault . 12 years ago, a child murder from the streets of colombia, trafficked, an
In one state, it is harder to do it in all 50 states. Especially when the governors of a bunch of states and half of the congress are not trying to help. Yeah. It is hard, but it is worth it. The president was in boston trying to reboot the conversation around the new health law. House republicans were back in washington hard at work investigating the laws troubled debut. Once again, here we have my republican colleagues trying to scare everybody. Will the gentleman yield . No, i will not yield to this monkey court. Today, the monkey court was back in session. This time with health and Human Services secretary Kathleen Sebelius fielding the questions. From congressmen eager to get to the bottom of the rocky Health Reform rollout. Did you know, for example, that Kathleen Sebelius used to be governor of kansas . Madam secretary, while youre from kansas you were governor and state insurance commissioner in kansas. Which is also the site of an iconic american film. There is a famous movie
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And if it was hard doing it just in one state, it is harder to do it in all 50 states. Especially when the governors of a bunch of states and half of the congress are not trying to help. Yeah. It is hard, but it is worth it. The president was in boston trying to reboot the conversation around the new health law. House republicans were back in washington hard at work investigating the laws troubled debut. Once again, here we have my republican colleagues trying to scare everybody. Will the gentleman yield . No, i will not yield to this monkey court. Today, the monkey court was back in session. This time with health and Human Services secretary Kathleen Sebelius fielding the questions. From congressmen eager to get to the bottom of the rocky Health Reform rollout. Did you know, for example, that Kathleen Sebelius used to be governor of kansas . Madam secretary, while youre from kansas you were governor and state insurance commissioner in kansas. Which is also the site of an iconic americ