If I Have Accomplished Anything Good, Then

Our Social And Economic Statistics Are Telling Us What We Already Know In Our Hearts: We Have Created A World That Works For Only A Few. To Change This, We Must Learn To Act Toward Each Other And Our Environment In Profoundly Different Ways.

Though My Heart May Be Left Of Centre, I Have Always Known That The Only Economic System That Works Is A Market Economy... This Is The Only Natural Economy, The Only Kind That Makes Sense, The Only One That Can Lead To Prosperity, Because It Is The Only One That Reflects The Nature Of Life Itself.

You May Ask What Kind Of A Republic I Dream Of. Let Me Reply: I Dream Of A Republic Independent, Free, And Democratic, Of A Republic Economically Prosperous And Yet Socially Just; In Short, Of A Humane Republic Which Serves The Individual And Which Therefore Holds The Hope That The Individual Will Serve It In Turn. Of A Republic Of Well-rounded People, Because Without Such It Is Impossible To Solve Any Of Our Problems, Human, Economic, Ecological, Social, Or Political.

It Was Never The People Who Complained Of The Universality Of Human Rights, Nor Did The People Consider Human Rights As A Western Or Northern Imposition. It Was Often Their Leaders Who Did So.

When A Truth Is Not Given Complete Freedom, Freedom Is Not Complete.