The Longer You Wait, The

It's The American Leadership That Has Not Played The Role It Should Be Playing And That Leaders In Other Countries Have Been Playing.

Every Morning Our Newspapers Could Read, 'more Than 20,000 People Perished Yesterday Of Extreme Poverty.' How? The Poor Die In Hospital Wards That Lack Drugs, In Villages That Lack Antimalarial Bed Nets, In Houses That Lack Safe Drinking Water. They Die Namelessly, Without Public Comment. Sadly, Sad Stories Rarely Get Written.

The Rich Do Not Have To Invest Enough In The Poorest Countries To Make Them Rich; They Need To Invest Enough So That These Countries Can Get Their Foot On The Economic Ladder . . . Economic Development Works. It Can Be Successful. It Tends To Build On Itself. But It Must Get Started.

We Had A Booming Stock Market In 1929 And Then Went Into The World's Greatest Depression. We Have A Booming Stock Market In 1999. Will The Bubble Somehow Burst, And Then We Enter Depression? Well, Some Things Are Not Different.

Roosevelt Talked Not Only About Freedom From Fear, But Also Freedom From Want.