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...ve always had a strong tradition of individualism - "I'm going to make it on my own" - and self-reliance, and that's one of the most special, precious things about America. But you've also had a running thread of community that Alexis de Tocqueville wrote about, and voluntary associations and organizations. And that's been just as important in creating the bonds of trust and the community infrastructure that means kids are growing up healthy and Little Leagues have coaches, and churches and synagogues and mosques, religious institutions are out in the community and not just focused inward...
...think that's not only good for the society as a whole - it makes us stronger - but it's good for individuals because it breaks people out of their isolation. In fact, one of the arguments I've made for why people should volunteer now, even though times are tough, is nothing is better to break you out of a funk or your own anxieties than helping somebody else. And I think that we all have a tendency when times are tough to turn inward, but in some ways that can be more isolating. And I think being out there...
...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...
...trying to, through this administration and many of the initiatives that we've taking on, in addition to national service - like the President said, the garden is about that individual power; that at the end - we need strong health care reform measures, we need government to act - but how we teach and how we feed our children is a very individual power. But you have to be informed, you have to have choices, you have to have access to food...
...fact, in the poll - speaking of millennials - about a third of Americans - you know, I have to think of some interesting names for them - "the Responsibles" basically say that they've changed their lives and they've made essentially a kind of new social contract. They're buying things that are greener; they're buying things that have a sense of social responsibility. And this group is about 70 or 80 million Americans. They're younger, they're better educated, they're more diverse...