I’ve gained first hand knowledge of the challenges faced by people with disabilities. It’s made me understand that those of us who have full use of our physical faculties owe an enormous amount of respect and sensitivity to people who don’t.
If you come from a wealthy country with open borders, unless you seriously believe you can kill, imprison or occupy all your enemies, you have to make a world with more friends and fewer enemies – with more partners and fewer terrorists.
We must continue to deepen our ties to the Americas and the Caribbean, our common work to educate children, fight drugs, strengthen democracy, and increase trade.
Forget what you may have heard about a digital divide or worries that the world is splintering into ‘info haves’ and ‘info have-nots.’ The fact is, technology fosters equality, and it’s often the relatively cheap and mundane devices that do the most good.
The best example of all, to me, that our problems are both personal and cultural and political and social is the whole condition of the middle class economically.
NASA even sent Chuck Berry’s music on a space probe searching for intelligent life in outer space. Well, now, if they’re out there, they’re duck walking
People should really take care when they vote, and pay more attention to what people say they’re going to do – instead of just how they feel about how things are going.
