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...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 the way you framed the description spoke...
...areas of concern that the public has right now is government spending. Even though we've had a disaster economically and I think we took some very important steps, people are understandably distressed about the size of the debt and deficits, because they're saying to themselves that just doesn't seem responsible...
...same is true on the environment; that we have to be thinking about what we're doing to the climate, or what we're doing to our air and our water. The same is true when it comes to our educational system; that we've got to make sure that our kids are turning...
...there anything 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...
...goes back to making sure that we understand that all legs of the stool are important. Philanthropy is going to be important, and we want to encourage businesses in all sorts of ways to get involved. For example, I've been talking to my science advisor, John Holdren, about how we can really tap into businesses to improve science and technology and math education. And I am willing to bet that there isn't a high-tech company out there - Google, Microsoft, what have you - that wouldn't love to sponsor young people - and young girls in particular, who oftentimes...