Question: What should we be doing?
Armitage: In my view we ought to be investing and reinvesting in education, and particularly in technical education. We ought to find the wherewithal to be able to come up with a health scheme that can be quite robust and satisfy the needs of the great majority of our population. But we spend our time, as I suggested earlier, arguing things very often which are not very important and leave these big, tough issues unfunded and understated. I was thinking on the way down here today, Dwight David Eisenhower is the one who is responsible for our great infrastructure – this great network of highways. A big idea. Lyndon Johnson had this great society. Richard Nixon put a man on the moon. I mean huge ideas. We seem to be bereft of those ideas. So I think we need to get a little more comity in our political discourse. We need to focus on education in a very serious way. And as I say, get a handle on immigration. And if we do that, I think we’ll have a pretty bright future.
Discuss
Ariel Sand on February 13, 2008, 11:03 AM
What exactly does he mean by "get a handle on immigration?" and why did he sneek that in at the last moment?
Ariel Sand on February 13, 2008, 4:03 PM
What exactly does he mean by “get a handle on immigration?” and why did he sneek that in at the last moment?
Doug Newman on March 24, 2008, 8:16 AM
Selecting education as an Important Idea was pathetically ironic on Armitage's part. A man who believes that it was Nixon who was responsible for the Apollo program certainly needs education himself. The irony is heightened by the the fact that his activities in Vietnam and his promotion of the attack on Iraq resulted in considerable destruction of schools and closure of universities.
Doug Newman on March 24, 2008, 12:16 PM
Selecting education as an Important Idea was pathetically ironic on Armitage’s part. A man who believes that it was Nixon who was responsible for the Apollo program certainly needs education himself. The irony is heightened by the the fact that his activities in Vietnam and his promotion of the attack on Iraq resulted in considerable destruction of schools and closure of universities.
Richard Ahern on June 10, 2008, 6:21 PM
Considering who this man is and the enormity of his conduct in the Bush administration, this seems like a mighty incongruous statement. Perhaps he prefers a legacy that contravenes his reality.
Richard Ahern on June 10, 2008, 10:21 PM
Considering who this man is and the enormity of his conduct in the Bush administration, this seems like a mighty incongruous statement. Perhaps he prefers a legacy that contravenes his reality.
Add a Comment
You must be logged in to comment. Log in or Register