Word: thingness
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...best expectations are that it’s going to be a mild illness in most people, so I think that’s a pretty conservative thing to do,” Lipsitch said...
TIME: So this is for our third annual national service issue. And that is a great thing. I remember last year we did one that was the setup for the national service summit that we did with you and Senator McCain. So it's a year later - The President: Which was very cool. That was a great forum...
This is really kind of a new thing. And the argument that I'm going to try to make is that this is a new kind of service, a new kind of civic engagement; that people are becoming kind of citizen consumers, and that is related to this idea of service. The President: Well, I think you especially see that in the next generation, even among our daughters. I remember Malia maybe three years ago - she was eight or seven - said, you've got to get a hybrid because this is polluting the air and killing polar bears...
...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 and those who thought government shouldn't do anything. And even...
...core functions that have to be dealt with. We're in the midst of a health care debate right now, and there was a story a couple of weeks back about the free health care that was provided on an annual basis in California, but they do the same thing in Virginia, where doctors and nurses all gather for three or four days; anybody can come and get health care, and there were just thousands of people showing up. That can't be sort of an efficient, effective way for us to make sure that people have the care that...