Our Nation's future depends on the education we provide to our sons and daughters.
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Proclamation 8510—National Charter Schools Week
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And in defense of the country. And in defense of the world that you want to leave to your children and your grandchildren.
Some of you know when I was growing up, I didn't have a father in the house. But I did have people around me, stepfather, grandparents, teachers, coaches and most of all my mother, who tried to teach me the difference between right and wrong, who showed me what it meant to be honest and responsible to work hard, to treat other people the way I wanted to be treated.
This is obviously not the outcome we had hoped for, given our profound disagreements with the Republican ticket on a whole host of issues.
In politics, a good rule of thumb is, don't say you want to do anything like Hitler.





