The sooner we learn to be jointly responsible, the easier the sailing will be.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.
Let us all take more responsibility, not only for ourselves and our families but for our communities and our country.
We have so much room for improvement. Every aspect of our lives must be subjected to an inventory... of how we are taking responsibility.
Once we agree on the future, the present will be much easier. A captain who does not know where he wants to sail, there is no wind on Earth that will bring him there. We have first to decide where we want to go, where we want to sail.
In the last twelve years, we have come some distance towards reconciliation and the breaking down of disadvantage. Let us take encouragement from what has been achieved and set our minds and hearts to end the remaining roadblocks.
This time, instead of moving oceans and healing planets, let's get our bills in order and pay down the debt so we control our own future.
We've got to be responsible, somebody's got to be responsible for it.
A sailing ship is no democracy; you don't caucus a crew as to where you'll go anymore than you inquire when they'd like to shorten sail.
All humanity share a common future, and we must work to try and shape it together. This is our duty, and it is our responsibility to our children and grandchildren.
We ship owners and our predecessors, all the way back to the dawn of history, operating in majority on private initiative and at our own risk, have been linking the world together much more effectively than governments ever managed to do or will likely ever be capable of doing.