That's a good question. Let me try to evade you.

It was a myth that's often perpetuated at commencement that holds that only hope and promise lie beyond the halls of academe. Don't worry, be happy. Everything is fine.

Journey with me to a true commitment to our environment. Journey with me to the serenity of leaving to our children a planet in equilibrium.

No one on his deathbed ever said, "I wish I had spent more time on my business."

That's a good question. Let me try to evade you.

From a viable economy to the full funding of Headstart, from a clean environment to true equality for women, from a strong military to a commitment to racial brotherhood, from schools that are honored to streets free of excessive violence.

That sense of sacredness, that thinking in generations, must begin with reverence for this earth.