so i am very privileged to have been invited first of all by my great friend bob shrum, and then by john sexton, to be a small part in a great project which is one of the pathbreaking initiatives that is going to change our world for good over the next few years. i believe that you who are students, supporters and friends of new diversity ought to be privilege to be part of a project that is going to change not this country but change the whole world. i started off as a lecturer in a university when i was somewhat younger, and universities as you know stand for objectivity, rationality, impartiality, for the disinterested pursuit of truth. and these are all the qualities you have to leave behind when you go into politics as i found out. [laughter] i had a bit of time him and as john glenn over these past few months in voluntarily, and i look at what my predecessors had done in had achieved. when the israeli left office he started writing poetry at the fact that nobody was interested in reading it, or even hearing it didn't seem to worry him at all. when gladstone, another great primaries