The foundation that has made America that last, best hope on earth hasn't gone anywhere. It still exists. It is up to us to return to it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next.
Well, I didn't want to have the reminder sort of in the sky, so that people would forever look at it. I wanted to have - really to create a city from the bottom up. From that foundation, which held, from the democratic power of what the site really is.
For all its terrible faults, in one sense America is still the last, best hope of mankind, because it spells out so vividly the kind of happiness that most people actually want, regardless of what they are told they ought to want.
I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while.
I'm getting optimistic. I think, as I talk to people around the country - they seem to get it. They want a return to those things that made America different and great.
Now people all across America are starting to believe in America again. We are coming back, back to the heights of greatness, back to America's proud role as a temple of justice and a champion of peace.
If you build that foundation, both the moral and the ethical foundation, as well as the business foundation, and the experience foundation, then the building won't crumble.
No government is here forever. And there are other forces - the most potent force in our society, in fact, big business - doing good for the environment.
My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.
We've already gotten a significant grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and a university consortium. I think the whole sector of Foundations, potentially with government support, is promising - more than promising, I think, it's substantial.
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