[Q] Where do you think all of these areas that you've talked about and that you've been so involved in are going? Where are they going to be 30-40 years from now?
I wouldn't pretend to, to guess. I would say that unless we, as a nation, the United States, blessed as we have been, unless we decide that the issues that I've been talking about: science, children, global health - unless we decide that these issues belong to all of us and have to be pre-eminent on our agenda, I despair to think of where we will be 30 or 40 years ago... from now. I worry about it. I spoke of my children, of their children; they won't have the good fortune that Doris and I have had unless there is a major change, I believe, in the way that we look at our responsibilities.
We are the strongest nation in the world. We have the greatest access to resources. At the present time we're diminishing the attention to science. We're diminishing attention to education. We continue to build up a military that seems far stronger to me than anything we could ever need, a military, in fact, that is presumably based on a war that is of another era.