If we are not the best educated people in the world, we cannot long expect to be the most powerful country in the world.
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Kent Conrad stresses the importance of education for maintaining national power.
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I wish I could look you in the eye and say, you know, if we just had the will, we could reverse this, and we could go back to a time when defined benefit plans were on the increase. I do not think that is in the cards.
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