It Is Time For Us To Turn

When We Were Hit On 9/11 It Took Us A Few Weeks To Get The Coalition Together Because [george] Bush Had Come In With A Kind Of Narrow Ideology, Looking At The World, I'd Say, Through A Keyhole And Not Through A Door.

When I Was A Boy We Were Poor And We Had To Make Do With What We Had. So My Grandma Used To Make Us Quits That We Used For Blankets. She Couldn't Afford To Go To The Store And Buy A Blanket -- So She'd Take Scraps Of Cloth And Sew Them Together. There'd Be Different Colors And Different Patterns And Different Types Of Cloth -- But They All Went Together To Make That Big Quilt To Keep Us Warm.

Why Would Anyone Be Able To Make $21 Million Not Showing Up For Work For A Single Day? That Is Vulgar Capitalism. That Is Not Good For The Nation.

Coming Into World War Ii, We Were Seen As A Conquering Hero For Beleaguered People, We Are Now Seen As Invader, An Occupier. And What That Is Saying Is We Have More Might Than Right, So We Kind Of Have A Kind Of Moral Deficit Disorder. And That's Why A Leader Must Lift Us Back To The Higher Ground, Because At The End Of The Day What Makes You Strong Is That You Are Believable, That As Significant As Might Is, Ultimately Right Is Even Stronger Than Might.

You Must Never Stop Dreaming. Face Reality, Yes. But Don't Stop With The Way Things Are; Dream Of Things As They Ought To Be. Dream Of Peace. Peace Is Rational And Reasonable. War Is Irrational In This Age And Unwinnable.