Sen. Kennedy Speaks to Our Future. Speech by Edward Kennedy, National Press Club, DC, January 12, 2005. "To find our way to the future, we need the skills, the insight and the productivity of every American, in a nation which each of us shares responsibility for the future and where the blessings of progress are shared fairly by all our citizens in return... We need an economy that values work fairly, that puts the needs of families ahead of excess profits, an economy whose goal is growth with full employment and good jobs and good benefits for all. To create good jobs for both today and tomorrow's economy, the private and public sector must work together toward specific goals... A progressive economy also recognize that Americans don't just want more, they want more of what matters in life, which is the American dream... We should reduce our dependence on foreign oil, not by drilling in the priceless Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska, but by investing in clean energy... We should invest in mass transit to reduce the pollution in our air and the congestion on our roads. We should stop the non-scientific, pseudo-scientific, anti-scientific nonsense emanating from the right wing and start demanding immediate action to reduce global warming and prevent the catastrophic climate change that may be on our horizon now... Franklin Roosevelt said of America in 1945, 'We have learned that we cannot live along at peace, that our own well-being is dependent on the well-being of nations far away. We have learned to be citizens of the world, members of the human community.'" Kennedy Accomplishments, PDF, 54 pp. The Protecting the Environment and Promoting Energy Efficiency category is on page 36.
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