Over and over, for 220 years, and if you go back to the Colonial Period for another 150 years before that, there has been a constant, daily effort to create greater freedom, greater safety, and greater prosperity. It is a struggle which will never end. I have often wondered when this fight over Internet Governance would end. Thanks to Newt, I now realize that it never will. Evil is always possible.
People always are willing to seize power to control and exploit others.
The struggle for freedom is eternal, and you retain only by being willing in each generation to do your best. We are very lucky. We stand on the shoulders of generations who have bled, worked, thought, argued, fought passionately in politics as well as war. I think the challenge to us is to lift our eyes from the bickering of Washington, the negativism of the elite media, all the temptations of political schism, to recreate for the American people the dream that all of us can be free and safe and prosperous, and to offer policies that work, based on principles that are sound, based on values that are universal. And I think that if we will do that, then just as Ronald Reagan over a 20-year period moved this nation, I believe we will, in fact, give this country a fabulously better future, and through our example, give the entire human race the opportunity by the middle of the century to be free, safe and prosperous.