secretary, j.e. sucks. [applause] actually, on the last day at the state department, he asked if i would come here today and deliver a message that his classmates really needed to hear. here it goes. you still owe, josh money from that road trip last fall. [laughter] [applause] i have to tell you, it is really fun for me to be back here on the old campus, i am accompanied by a classmate of mine. we were on the soccer team and he served as ambassador to italy recently, david thorne of. my daughter, vanessa, graduated in the class of 1999. i know what a proud moment this is for your parents, but my friends, the test will be if they still feel this way next may if you live at home. i am really happy you made it back from myrtle beach. [laughter] as if you had not already logged enough take time -- keg time. remember, 4.0 is a good gpa but it is a lousy blood-alcohol level. [laughter] i love the hats. we did not have been when i was here. i love the hats. they are outrageous. they are spectacular. this may be t

today, that startup is called fedex and by the way, it was thated in j.e which means j.e. rules. [cheering] the other nutty idea was to restart something called the yale flying club. admittedly, this was more of a scheme to get us out of class and off campus. i basically spent my senior year majoring in flying, practicing takeoffs and landings at an airport. responsible? no, but i would not have missed it. one of the best lessons i learned here is that mark twain was absolutely right. never let school get in the way of an education. , did not know what in the time but yell tommy to finish what you start, and that is one thing that clearly separates us from harvard. [laughter] after all, a lot of those guys don't even graduate. zuckerberg,mark matt damon, what the hell have they ever amounted to? [laughter] for all i learned that yell, i have to tell you that the best piece of advice i got was one word from my 89-year-old mother. i will never forget, sitting by her bedside and telling her i decided to run for president. nd andueezed my ha said, integrity. integrity, john. member a

secretary, j.e. sucks. [applause] actually, on the last day at the state department, he asked if i would come here today and deliver a message that his classmates really needed to hear. here it goes. you still owe, josh money from that road trip last fall. [laughter] [applause] i have to tell you, it is really fun for me to be back here on the old campus, i am accompanied by a classmate of mine. we were on the soccer team and he served as ambassador to italy recently, david thorne of. my daughter, vanessa, graduated in the class of 1999. i know what a proud moment this is for your parents, but my friends, the test will be if they still feel this way next may if you live at home. i am really happy you made it back from myrtle beach. [laughter] as if you had not already logged enough take time -- keg time. remember, 4.0 is a good gpa but it is a lousy blood-alcohol level. [laughter] i love the hats. we did not have been when i was here. i love the hats. they are outrageous. they are spectacular. this may be t