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...think what Michelle has been doing in terms of the community garden and child nutrition is a great example of something that is not as flashy as a political campaign, but it has an opportunity to take root over time and really have an enormous impact on the community...
...that government can do to help that sort of leg of the stool, to help the kind of private sector of the corporate world become more involved in the non-profit sector? The President: Well, it's not surprising that when you've had the worst recession since the Great Depression, that businesses are cutting back across the board, and that includes their philanthropic efforts. What that also means is it's going to bounce back once businesses themselves bounce back. So I'm not so much worried about the long-term trends. I think that this is going...
...President: Which we - we have great experience on this front, telling our kids to turn off the TV and the video games...
...have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals," FDR said in 1937, in the midst of the Great Depression. "We know now that it is bad economics." We learned this all over again after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the shame of subprime mortgages and the brazen Ponzi scheme of Bernie Madoff. But even amid the Great Recession of 2009, people have been trading in their SUVs for Priuses, buying record amounts of fair-trade coffee and investing in socially responsible funds at higher rates than ever before. What we are discovering now, in the most uncertain economy...
...America has always been a great laboratory of social innovation, from Ben Franklin's creation of the volunteer fire department and the lending library to the rise of online collectives like Wikipedia and Facebook. Usually it has been an invention, some innovation in commerce - the car, the lightbulb, the television - that has changed how we interact with one another as well as how we think of ourselves. We are again entering a period of social change as Americans are recalibrating our sense of what it means to be a citizen, not just through voting or volunteering but also through commerce...