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Both in terms of volunteerism and this idea of kind of civic consumerism, our polls show that there has been a - for lack of a better term, kind of Obama effect - that includes both of you - and that in some ways you started talking about, early on, this very American idea of doing well by doing good: green industry, the idea that principles and progress are not mutually exclusive. In some way, you've both been an endorsement of this and a beneficiary of it. The President: Our campaign was an example...
...some ways they're a vanguard of this - of what Americans will be like 10, 20 or 30 years from now. I wonder if you could talk about this idea of is there kind of a new social contract that this group of Americans or Americans as a whole are embracing. The President: Well, I think this is a positive thing, and it speaks to something we've tried to express during the campaign - Washington hasn't quite caught up to it yet - and that is that a traditional argument was between those who thought government could do everything...
...Speaking of school is about to start - so this issue will come out actually on 9/11. And you have endorsed the idea that 9/11 should be a day of service rather than a day of mourning or a day of remembrance. The President: Well, not "rather than...
...Speaking of that day, one of the things that, in our poll, that had enormous resonance - and I think more than 80 percent of people across all of these categories supported - was the idea of a year of national service for young people, either post-high school, between high school and college, or sometime during high school that would either be civilian service or military service in exchange for an educational grant or scholarship. Now, they didn't want government to make it mandatory; they wanted it to be voluntary. But I'm wondering, how do you feel about that...
...numbers increase? I'd probably say yes. But there's costs. And that gets back to responsibility - how much are we willing to spend as a nation to ensure that every single young person has an opportunity to do service in exchange for government-supported education is a wonderful idea. But you'd probably get some pushback on how much should be spent on it and what are the priorities and do we do it at this time. There may be a time for it, and it's certainly, I think, something that seems to have a lot of bipartisan...