It takes education. as i said, when america made 12 hours of education standard, it gave us the best prepared workforce in the world. you saw what happened. think what would happen after world war i and how america moved. we were the best educated overall, country in the world. we led in the 20th century. as i said earlier, we know 12 years is not enough any longer to compete in the 21st century. study after study shows the earlier our children begin to learn, the better for themselves, their families and the nation. you know know the statics. it was very basic. that, if you come from a home where the mom or dad had books on the shelf and on the coffee table and read and come from a home with where mom or dad can t read or has a sixth grade education, the child coming from
The so-called biluild back bett plan. america gave us the betts prepared workforce in the world, you saw what happened. think about after world war i and how america moved. we were the best educated overall country in the world. we led in the 20th century. we know 12 years is not enough to compete in the 20th century. the earlier our children begin to learn, the better for themselves, their families and their nation. you all know the statistics and some of your teachers and husbands used to talk to me about this. it was really basic. when you come from a home where the mom or dat have books on the shelves and on the coffee table and read, and you come from a home where mom or dad can t read or has a sixth grade education or has a little difficulty, the
Country for money, but i really thought it was important they understood just how devastating it would be and of course federal funds don t go for abortion services so what they re talking about doing is preventing women from getting breast exams and well visits. how do you describe where women s reproductive rights are today in terms of access to birth control, access to abortion? is it going backwards or forwards? i think we made enormous progress under the last administration. in fact, one of the most important, i think, campaigns that we led at planned parenthood was to get birth control covered for all women in this country. we re actually now at the lowest rate of teenage pregnancy in the history of this country. i think we re making enormous progress. unfortunately, at the state level, more and more, it depends
Interest in running for public office. dbsolutely positively none. any life at that time, when i was born my father was i congress. when i was in first grade he became mayor of baltimore. when i was a freshman you held the bible when he got sworn in, yeah. and then when i was at trinity college, he was still the mayor of baltimore. so that was the life we led. and every election was exciting. you know, our beautiful home had in the front table there pamphlets, buttons, placards, we called them, bumper stickers. whatever it was going to be. whether it was the state races, the local races, the presidential, whatever it was. it was always to be involved. it was pretty exciting. i once asked you what you learned, and you said i learned how to count. count, yeah. that was it. i had to count. that i remember just not wanting to learn, just observing. how you got the votes you needed. how you get the votes. you just have to make sure that
But we have to look at reality. i have a simple answer. we ll take all the christians, okay. then we don t have a national security problem. wow. take the christians. nobody else in the world wants to take care of them. how about that as a proposal. wow. this president won t be making that proposal, though. he won t do it. you can be sure he won t. that s right. he doesn t care about christians anywhere in the world. a legitimate thing that the media is not covering enough is the specific targeting of christians in syria and iraq. a lot of them the part where they say they want to kill all the christians. they are doing it. they burn them. if you look at those pictures you saw that toddler washed up. these pictures are heart rending. this is the consequence of war. you say united states needs a leadership position. we led in the destabilization of iraq back in 03.