“I chose to speak with you all today as opposed to angrily and somewhat nervously stumbling over premeditated lines and shuffling papers because as Mr. Bjornlund has just shown, its not exactly personable.”

 

“When Jack has gone through a rough period and he wants to begin this shift in his life and he says, ‘Soon now we shall go out of the house and into the convulsion of the world. Out of history, into history, and the awful responsibility of time.’ He is attempting to free himself from his painful past where he just never really accepted that his actions would have an effect on the future. But he speaks about history and history in one sentence is where we have come from. But in another, it's the final judge of our actions and as a nation, we do need to step out of history and into history. We need to stop yearning for the America of the past like some presidential candidates in our modern era. We need to focus on creating a robust future for our nation. Let us let history, which is our ultimate judge, remember this generation and this movement that we are. Let it remember us fondly, and not as those who are clinging to the past but as the authors of the future.”

 

“It’s a massive responsibility but it's also a massive opportunity.”

 

“We have the opportunity to destroy, but we also have the opportunity to heal.”

“Why are we where we are today? Our forefathers made us the heirs of all their virtuous acts.”

“What is the new inalienable right of our time? I believe that that inalienable right is healthcare.”

 

“We are a nation of the world, but why are we a nation of the world? We were pulled into our military presence around the globe because of our conflict with the Soviet Union.”

 

“America no longer has a cause to be the modern Atlas, holding up the democratic world.”

 

“Today, you’ve heard several candidates including Mr. Nevins and Mr. Belikow speak in broad terms about reducing the military and how they are going to cut the military. But I have a real plan for you about how to do it. I have a specific example. This is not a broad statement from years’ past, this is a shocking finding that was exposed on Monday of this week. The Washington Post, on Monday, published an article regarding the Pentagon’s burying of an internal study that exposed $125 billion in administrative waste.”

 

“A nation cannot stuff the few who are rich while starving those who are poor.”

 

“While I understand that this may be difficult to comprehend for those like Mr. Rothschild who has traveled across the globe, but every American should have the ability to cast aside the chains of poverty.”

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