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We are making a difference, so if you change your world, you are going to change your community, you are going to change your country, and think about that.
When we get together with friends and family and we discuss crime in our country, crime in Belmont or crime in Diego or crime in Marabella, nobody's speaking about corruption.
We're coming out today from Trinidad and Tobago, a resource-rich, small Caribbean country, and in the early 1970s we had a massive increase in the country's wealth, and that increase was caused by the increase in world oil prices.
Okay? (Applause) The first thing I want to talk about is that when all of this money flowed into our country about 40 years ago, we embarked, the government of the day embarked on a series of government-to-government arrangements to have rapidly develop the country.
And some of the largest projects in the country were being constructed through government-to-government arrangements with some of the leading countries in the world, the United States and Britain and France and so on and so on.
Four months ago, we suffered a constitutional outrage in this country.
Our highest institution in our country was perverted.
I have defined this as the single largest expenditure in the country's history.
Then onto other parts of the country, I repeated this over and over again, getting exactly the same results that we were.
Number two, very quickly: How do you solve global climate change when we don't even have a national energy policy in this country and when gridlock in Congress seems to be the norm?
So if I asked you, for example, what was the Obama Administration policy that caused massive changes across the country, what would you say?
The government put a $4.5 billion pot and said to the governors across the country, compete for it.
So what if we decided to create a challenge to the governors of the country, and the price to entry into this competition used the same amount that the bipartisan group approved in Congress for the Race to the Top for education, 4.5 billion, which sounds like a lot, but actually it's less than one tenth of one percent of federal spending.
You might say the solar states, the sun belt, we're going to be the states that produce solar energy for the country, and maybe Jerry Brown says, "Well, I'm going to create an industry cluster in California to be able to produce the solar panels so that we're not buying them from China but we're buying them from the U.S." In fact, every region of the country could do this.
Cut to our century, same country, same pyramids, another people spreading the same idea of equality with a different book.
When I was little, I thought my country was the best on the planet.
This was the first time I heard that people in my country were suffering.
Who am I? Suddenly, there was no country I could proudly call my own.
Many North Koreans are separated from their families, and when they arrive in a new country, they start with little or no money.
Or you could end up in a country where taking a picture of a pharmacy of mass production from the other side of the street is terrorism; this happens in the United States.
And then I saw the obvious link, because even we liberals love this country.
And so when the pundits and the politicians say that change is impossible, what this love of country says back is, "That's just irrelevant."
That girl can take her iPhone, put it on the robot, send an email to Grandma, who lives on the other side of the country.
JB: It'll be a better country in 20 years, 'cause we were there.
The experiment is this: Is it possible to have institutions in our country, universities, where people from all backgrounds can come and learn and learn to work together and learn to become leaders and to support each other in that experience?
And the question is this: How is it that now we lead the country in producing African-Americans who go on to complete Ph.D.'s in science and engineering and M.D./Ph.D.'s?
Whether you know it or not, large numbers of students with high SAT's and large numbers of A.P. credits who go to the most prestigious universities in our country begin in pre-med or pre-engineering and engineering, and they end up changing their majors.
Think of the country clergyman or squire collecting his beetles or fossils, like Charles Darwin, for example, or, the hired help of a nobleman, like Joseph Priestley, who was the literary companion to the Marquis of Lansdowne when he discovered oxygen.
And one in particular that you probably wouldn't know about, stroke, which has been, along with heart disease, one of the biggest killers in this country, is a disease in which now we know that if you can get people into the emergency room within three hours of the onset, some 30 percent of them will be able to leave the hospital without any disability whatsoever.
It's kind of an extraordinary story when you realize that this is twice as common as homicide and actually more common as a source of death than traffic fatalities in this country.
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