Wise words from one who also knows. Much, but youtoo have not lost everything. And you certainly have not lost america. For we will stand with you. [applause] if ever we needed evidence of that, i could only recall the words of governor and mrs. Keating if anybody thinks that americans are mostly mean and selfish, they ought to come to oklahoma. [applause] if anybody thinks americans have lost the capacity for love and caring and courage, they ought to come to oklahoma. [applause] to all my fellow americans beyond this hall, i say, one thing we owe those who have sacrificed is the duty to purge ourselves of the dark forces which gave rise to this evil. [applause] they are forces that threaten our common peace, our freedom, our way of life. Let us teach our children that the god of comfort is also the god of righteousness those who trouble their own house will inherit the wind. Justice will prevail. Let us let our own children know that we will stand against the forces of fear. When the
Our fellow americans, i am honored to be here today to represent the american people. But i have to tell you that hillary and i also, as parents, as husband and wife, as people who were your neighbors for some of the best years of our lives. Today our nation joins with you in grief. We mourn with you, we share your hope against hope that some may still survive. We thank all of those who have worked heroically to save lives and solve this crime, those here in oklahoma and those who are across this great land, and many who left their own lives to come here to work handinhand with you. We pledge to do all we can to help you heal the injured, to rebuild this city, and to bring to justice those who did this evil. This terrible sin took the lives of our american family, innocent children in that building only because their parents were trying to be good parents as well as good workers, citizens in the building, going about their daily business, and many there who served the rest of us, to he
This was from the president ial ideas festival hosted by the university of virginias miller center. We appreciate you coming, we have some other panels going on at the same time, we will try to make it worth your while. Today we are really lucky, i am a former speechwriter for president obama. We are also really lucky to have sarah and john. Jeff who works for resident click and was supposed to be here but he had a conflict that kept him in d. C. We have some questions for these two, and then we will take any questions you have. If theres anything we hope you take away from this session, being a president ial speechwriter is exactly like you think it would be on the west wing. [laughter] im just kidding, it is much cooler. [laughter] i will start with questions about the relationship between ideas and speeches. Sometimes what starts as an idea and ends up as in a speech, sometimes the process starts before you have the idea. Im curious him how does an idea become a speech . In a weird
My hope is to use about half of the time to talk about questions ive got for these two, then spend the other half taking questions that you have. If theres one thing i hope you take from this whole session, it is that being a president ial speechwriter is exactly what you would think it would be on the west wing. Thats it. Im kidding, it is much more like veep. Since this is the president ial ideas festival, i will start with a question about the relationship between ideas and speeches. Sometimes what starts off as an idea ends up in a speech, sometimes the speechwriting process starts before you have the idea. Just curious, sarah, what do you think, what would you share about that process, how an idea becomes a speech. I think in a weird way as speechwriters, we are not coming up with the ideas. There are much smarter people in the building that are developing those ideas. But in a way i think that these ideas kind of they dont get crystallized until theyre litigated on the page. So a
Be up and july 4, 2026. Really . The only thing we learn from history as we have heard the cliche is that we learn nothing from history, and this is a ten players and great nations. The average length is 250 years. Some lasted longer like the roman empire, but all followed the same pattern to decline. Anand im on the among the chars that contributed to the decline were Massive National debt. The United States is a 23 trillion. And growing. Just the interest on that alone is greater than the Gross Domestic Product of some nations. He didnt talk about cutting a single Government Program or the increase of spending. This is the only nonpartisan thing that happened is spending. You can always get agreement on more. The second to the decline of great nations into superpowers and empires is uncontrolled immigration without assimilation. We want people to come to america but we want them to come legally and in an orderly fashion and then to be assimilated like the immigrants of the pasemigran