We would like to thank mrs. Obama, mrs. Bush and all the wonderful first ladies who are here. We are delighted to have you. In the United States, we have a very powerful notion that we all hear about from the time were children that education is the key to a Better Future for us and for each successive generation. I heard about it in my family where i was the first person to graduate from college. Mrs. Obama spoke about it today. I think it was a similar experience for her. Here in the United States, we refer to it as the American Dream. But in my travels around the world as the ambassador for global womens issues, i have discovered it isnt really just an American Dream at all. Its a universal dream. Millions of parents want their children, girls and boys, to learn more, to do better, to achieve greater things than they did. I saw it at st. Josephs girl school in sierra leone. We all saw it with the girls trying to hard and against such incredible odds to again an education in northern