○  英语演讲稿：Energy and the National Goals  ○

, men and women like you. it has been an extraordinary ten days, and i want to share with you what i’ve heard.

first of all, i got a lot of personal advice. let me quote a few of the typical comments that i wrote down.

this from a southern governor: “mr. president, you are not leading this nation -- you’re just managing the government.”

“you don’t see the people enough anymore.”

“some of your cabinet members don’t seem loyal. there is not enough discipline among your disciples.”

“don’t talk to us about politics or the mechanics of government, but about an understanding of our common good.”

“mr. president, we’re in trouble. talk to us about blood and sweat and tears.”

“if you lead, mr. president, we will follow.”

many people talked about themselves and about the condition of our nation. this from a young woman in pennsylvania: “i feel so far from government. i feel like ordinary people are excluded from political power.”

and this from

a young chicano: “some of us have suffered from recession all our lives.”

“some people have wasted energy, but others haven’t had anything to waste.”

and this from a religious leader: “no material shortage can touch the important things like god’s love for us or our love for one another.”

and i like this one particularly from a black woman who happens to be the mayor of a small mississippi town: “the big shots are not the only ones who are important. remember, you can’t sell anything on wall street unless someone digs it up somewhere else first.”

this kind of summarized a lot of other statements: “mr. president, we are confronted with a moral and a spiritual crisis.”

several of our discussions were on energy, and i have a notebook full of comments and advice. i’ll read just a few.

“we can’t go on consuming forty percent more energy then we produce. when we import oil we are also importing inflation plus unem

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