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When you're young, you don't realize the sacrifices that people are making for you.

There has to be a way to live the life you're accustomed to and not sacrifice things. Americans are not very good about sacrificing.

This America has been the country of greed rather than the country of need.

I've met so many people of my son's generation who think a sacrifice is when their satellite or Internet is out for a day and that the country owes them something. That old J.F.K. quote about 'what you can do for your country,' doesn't even seem to apply to so many people.

I want young people to be hesitant to glorify war and to demand of their leaders justification for the sacrifices they ask of our citizens.

Our young people look up to us. Let us not let them down. Our young people need us. Saving them will make heroes of us all.

The problem that faces our country today, the last 30 years we have lived off the future, and the bill is coming due. So there cannot be anything that is not put on the table. There will not be one American that will not be called to sacrifice. Those that are more well-to-do will be called to sacrifice to a greater extent.

People want to make sacrifices but they don't want to be sacrificed.

Generosity has built America. When we fail to invest in children, we have to pay the cost.