That increase highquality Educational Opportunities for every child. As chair of this caucus, ive had the opportunity to visit Charter Schools private schools and Online Learning Centers Across the country. One of the most impressive experiences i had was right here in washington, d. C. At basis Charter School. Basis teaches an elite advanced liberal arts curriculum utilizing latin, algebra and advanced science concepts in the fifth grade. The results of the school are off the charts. Theyre educating kids from every single zip code in the washington, d. C. Area. I participated in a question and answer session after these classes with the students, and they were smart talked a lot about hard work, extra hours after class and the challenges of their curriculum. They were proud of their opportunity. But their number one concern was how we could ensure that their friends, neighbors and relatives had the same kind of opportunity. Thats powerful. These kids recognized that the freedom to ch
Enemies than what we already have, and we want to bring many of them over to our side. So we have to be careful, i think, how we approach that. And you all know this better than i do but i think we need to learn more about other countries and other peoples and other cultures. My favorite example of that, i was privileged to be a joint chief of staff. And every year admiral lyons and the rest of us would order us to go down and steam around haiti. And every year we would go down and steam around circles in haiti and every year some Phi Beta Kappa on the joint chiefs of staff would announce were going to drop leaflets and every year i would remind them, its a great idea, but they cant read. And then we used speakers and spoke creole. We dont know what were talking about here in a lot of areas. Were not the most brilliant people in the world. If i want to thank the panel. I think youre on the right track. Somehow you failed to mention how were going to how were going to take advantage of
Reduced while we maintain quality. That is part of the overall picture. The problem with health care thus far, and i have my own ideas about what we ought to do for health care and you can look at www. Ced. Org and read about it, the problem with the cost of health care is in significant part that Technology Enables us to do a lot of marvelous thing but the technology is expensive. And so part of what is Going Forward is how do we improve outcomes in our Health Care System including doing things that are just coming online that turn out to be very costly but can do very wonderful things for people. Thats going to be very difficult, but we need to we need to work on every front and improving the efficiency of the delivery of health care is probably tops at the list of what we need to do. And just touching on your broader question, i think one answer ive heard a lot from people have done this for a number of years is that the entitlement programs go directly into peoples pockets, especia
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History buff but unlike a lot of people who make that claim the history buff in my family was not my father. It was my mother and of her four children i seem to have been the only one she passed that gene onto. She took advantage of that one day we were driving into the city from westchester and she pointed out a big building up on a hill. She told me that was the bronx va hospital and then she said something that i have never forgotten. She said there were still men in that hospital who had never recovered from being gassed in the First World War. And this made quite an impression on a seven or 8yearold me. Even though i was a small child i knew enough about world war i to know that it happened a really really long time ago. 60 years at that point and it really struck me that there were men who had lived entire lifetime since then still frail from what they had endured in that war. I didnt know very much about the war at all. I knew what it was about. Pretty much i knew that snape u.