[A]s we invest in one another's ability to be productive we increase the community's wealth and we reduce its costly disorientations. And we also promote peace. God forbid we should allow history to record that the best thing this generation did as a nation was to destroy enemies and win wars, instead of helping people help themselves earn a good life. We know we can frighten people with our awesome military might: what we need to be sure of is that they will respect us for our wisdom and fairness as well.... We are the richest, freest, most technologically proficient and most powerful nation in world history. There is no reason, other than our own unwillingness, that we cannot also be the best educated, most highly skilled, healthiest, fairest nation in the world ¯ and the most effective instrument for spreading prosperity and peace to the rest of the planet.-- Mario Cuomo