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If I Were To Give Advice To Young People, High-achieving Young People For Example, I’d Have To Say, Don’t Neglect Your Family. Politics Is Important, Sitting At The Head Table Is Glamorous. Traveling Around The World, Trying To Do Something For World Peace Was Wonderful. But Family And Friends And Faith Are What Really Matter In Life. And I Know That. I See It So Clearly Now.

Old Fashioned As It May Seem To Some, It Is My Duty To Serve My Country. And I Didn't Seek This Job But I Want To Do It, And I Will Do My Very Best.

Competence Is The Creed Of The Technocrat Who Makes Sure The Gears Mesh But Doesn't For A Second Understand The Magic Of The Machine.

Learning Is Good In And Of Itself...the Mothers Of The Jewish Ghettoes Of The East Would Pour Honey On A Book So The Children Would Know That Learning Is Sweet. And The Parents Who Settled Hungry Kansas Would Take Their Children In From The Fields When A Teacher Came.

Please Don't Ask Me To Do That Which I've Just Said I'm Not Going To Do, Because You're Burning Up Time. The Meter Is Running Through The Sand On You, And I Am Now Filibustering.