he worked as a principle including horace man in san francisco. thank you very much super intendent for being here. nathaniel ford is the director of the transportation authority. prior to joining the municipal authority. he served for the atlantic authority for 5 years. he started as a train conductor in the new york city transit system. let's give it up for director ford. jim dierck is a principle, but not only a principle and an educator. he is someone who designd and developed innovative concepts where there was an incident that involved safety. for the work he was recognized at the national principle of the year. and he is somebody who is on the ground and has worked to empower young people at his school. he took his school from a different circumstances to be one of the highest performs school districts in the state. jim dierck. margaret brodkin is the director of the department for children youth and families. i emphasize that because it is one of the most critical agencies in the city and county. margaret was a former director the colman a

horace such exchanges, i hope our friendship can be furthered and i hope they can serve as ambassadors of goodwill for our two countries and they can make more positive contributions to the development of a cooperative partnership based on mutual respect and mutual benefit. >> let me respond briefly to your question. i absolutely believe that the peaceful rise of china is good for the world and good for america. >> [speaking chinese] >> it is good for humanitarian reasons. >> [speaking chinese] >> the united states has an interest in seeing hundreds of millions of people lifted out of poverty. >> [speaking chinese] >> we believe part of justice and part of human rights is people being able to make a living and having the death to eat and having shelter and having electricity. and the development of china has brought unprecedented economic growth to more people more quickly than just about any time in history. that is a positive good for the world and it is something the united states very much appreciates and respects. >> [speaking chinese] >> [speaking chinese] >> we also think that t

the mouth of the tong dynasty in the eighth century bc, you see a map of china that included even horace and in northeastern iran and allah central asia including afghanistan into western china so think of the world, a few decades ahead, when you have roads and pipelines linking a yes fan and pakistan and iran was fourth on the indian ocean that will download onto ships come across in indian ocean were going the other way which ships depositing oil and natural gas, moved up through roads and pipelines and then transported across into western china. now, what are we talking about here? were talking about the sum total of five of the iraq and afghanistan wars, whatever you think of those wars has been to fast-forward the rifle at the asian century. and by asian and south asian and east asian oath, one organic eurasia. and that's -- i mean that's not just in an economic sense because after all, east asia has been rising economically since the late 1970s. they were cover stories over 30 years ago in forbes and "fortune" magazine about the rise of the pacific tiger economies. i mean, the rise

in new york, horace greeley summarized jackson's response to this. jackson didn't say these words although they are often ascribed to him. it was really summing up what was known to be jackson's attitude. it was john marshall has made his decision. let him enforce it now if he can. so at this point the president of the united states was citing with the state of georgia over the decision of the supreme court, and he did it and the cherokees knew this, partially because he was being threatened in south carolina with the possibility of secession and he didn't want to go to war with itchy -- with the georgians over this issue, so he gave in and thought that by doing it, he was staving off what became the civil war, but since many ways he may have been in some ways encouraging him. a cherokee chieftain named chat obelisk was living in north carolina at the time and during the war of 1812 he had fogged with jackson at horseshoe bend, alabama, against the british and their indian allies. his response when he heard about the ruling in jackson's flaunting of

that would be -- i say in the book, i quote the great american scholar horace mann who said until you've done something for humanity you should be ashamed to die. so, it's quite a high standard to reach -- well, that would be doing something for humanity at a fairly small cost to myself, even if it involved protracting the treatment unnecessarily, i'd be willing to do it. >> in the middle of all this, a couple of weeks ago you debated tony blair -- >> yes. >> in toronto. >> i've carried on debating on this and other questions -- >> but we covered it and i want to run just a clip of you making some points. he's sitting on the stage there with you. let's watch that and we'll come back and ask you about it . >> as long as you don't want this religioun brought to my school, imposed on me by violence, you are fine by me. [applause] i would prefer -- i would prefer not even to know what it is that you do in that church of yours. if you force it on my attention, this.y it is a breach of have your own bloody christams. do your slaughtering in an abattoirr and don't mutilate the genitals of your