House Proceeding 05-05-09 on May 5th, 2009 :: 3:41:55 to 3:45:55
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Bob Inglis: dismissive of this incredibl heritage that we've been given. and i'd yield to the gentleman from south carolina. >> i thank the gentleman for yielding. i think what you've just said is very true. the thing i would add to it is it's also important that we not abandon hope in the midst of

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Speech By: Bob Inglis

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Bob Inglis: that awareness. you just talked about the important awareness of the trials that we're in. we do need to be very much aware. we also, i think, need to approach them with the hope that , well, it just depends on where you're coming from. from my perspective, it's this. the reason i've got hope is, i believe there's a sovereign god

3:42:34 to 3:42:57( Edit History Discussion )

Bob Inglis: who's in control of all things and furthermore, i think he's good. and so, you put those two things together and i've got every reason to be optimistic. i do need to be aware of the risk that we face. and therefore respond to them and anticipate them but also

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Bob Inglis: with the hope that america has been through similar kinds of troubles before. and met incredible challenges. the one -- since i'm serving on the science committee and i'm always mentioning the scientific things. i'm not a sign tifment, i just play one sometimes on the science committee, when you think about the things that the

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Bob Inglis: united states has done, we finished the transntinental railroad in the midst of the civil war. we finished the panama canal when the french had abandoned that effort, aft losing tens of thousands of people to malaria and other causes of death in panama.

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Bob Inglis: we were the nation that fought and won world war ii, that very quickly responded to the arms race, to sputnik and all of that. in south carolina, you know, we have part of our claim to fame in that the savannah river site still remains the largest

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Bob Inglis: construction project in the history of the country. all the stainless steel in the country at the time was going to akin, south carolina, to build the canyons that would develop some of the elements related to our nuclear arsenal. the bomb plant as we call it in south carolina. and then in 1961, president

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Bob Inglis: kennedy said, we must go to the moon, make it our goal to go to the moon before the end of the decade. and we did it, in 1969. so, the amazing thing to me is that we accomplished all of those things with technology that's old and was very old, now looks very old.

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Bob Inglis: the apollo mission. actually the shuttles were designed on the slide rules. so if you take what america has ne with this entrepreneurship, this belief in freedom, that the gentleman was just mentioning, and charge that up in the right way so that you marshall those forces -- forces and you go out

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Bob Inglis: and conquer these problems, that's what we're about. i think what my friend just mentioned is very good, about the importance of this free enterprise system. and the american dream. i think you were talking about. to me the american dream is this, it's the fulfilling of the god-given desire to create, to contribute, to care and to live

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Bob Inglis: at peace with ons self, one's neighbors and god. and that's the american dream. and it starts with an understanding that it's the opportunity to do those things. not the guarantee. and that's i think what separates us from the other

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Bob Inglis: party.