VITAL INDEX VOLUME LXXXIV SPEECHES of the day JANUARY–DECEMBER 2018 Page BUSH, GEORGE W. D Range Date Issue 1 to 32 January 2018 No. 1 A Man with a Code 262 33 to 60 February 2018 No. 2 DALY, MARY C. 61 to 92 March 2018 No. 3 BUSH, JEB Getting From Diversity to Inclusion in 93 to 124 April 2018 No. 4 Economics 190 125 to 152 May 2018 No. 5 Our First and Most Important Teacher 176 153 to 180 June 2018 No. 6 DANIELS, MITCH 181 to 204 July 2018 No. 7 C 205 to 232 August 2018 No. 8 Beware of Tribes 206 233 to 260 September 2018 No. 9 CALDWELL, DAN 261 to 292 October 2018 No. 10 DENHOLLANDER, RACHAEL 293 to 328 November 2018 No. 11 Seeking Security in a Turbulent World 341 329 to 364 December 2018 No. 12 Remember What You Have Witnessed These CANTRELL, LATOYA Past Seven Days 83 Authors There’s Only Us 197 DeVOS, BETSY B CARSON, BEN Committed to Expanding Education Freedom 248 In Public Housing, a New Era of Cooperation An Issue Is That We Have Abandoned BARNIER, MICHEL and Coordination 164 Truth 320 Paradoxically, Brexit Has Also CHAWLA, DEVIKA United Europe 27 DUDLEY, BOB Your Own Migration 229 Negotiating the Future of Energy 169 BERENBEIM, RONALD COLEMAN, MARY SUE We’re Characterized as Being at the Root Discovering the Better Angels of of the Problem 350 Our Nature 348 The University-Government Research Partnership Is at Risk 244 E BEURDEN, BEN VAN COLLINS, JAMES C. We Have to Change … and That Is What ELIZABETH II, QUEEN Shell Is Going to Do 126 Agricultural Megatrends That Should Matter to Everybody 280 The Timeless Simplicity to the Pull BIETER, DAVID of Home 56 COOK, TIM I’d Like to Take Us Back to Kindness F and Wonder 323 Our Own Information Is Being Weaponized Against Us 330 FALLON, JIMMY BLOOMBERG, MICHAEL You’re Not the Future You’re the Present 228 Here’s an Honor Code for Life 218 CRUTCHER, BETTY NEAL A Personal Connection 16 FENDT, GENE BODSON, MICHAEL Three Ideas of the University 353 Capturing the Innovation Tailwind 166 CURRY, MICHAEL BRUCE We Must Discover the Power of Love 202 FISH, JIM BOLTON, JOHN Caring for the Fifth Constituent 103 We Will Not Cooperate with the International Criminal Court 302 VSOTD.COM JANUARY–DECEMBER 2018 FITTERLING, JIM JOHNSON, BORIS MANDEL, MAUD S. People, Planet, Profit in the Digital Age 20 Brexit: The Great Liberal Project of How Can We Avoid Erasure, on the One FLAKE, JEFF Our Age 111 Hand, and Petrification on the Other? 318 The Truth, and Its Relationship to Democracy 75 MANDELA-DLAMINI, ZANANI The Vision of the Brexit That We Truth, Falsehoods, and the Dangerous State Fought For 251 Who My Mother Really Was 174 of Our Politics: A Way Forward 148 MARTIN, KEVIN How Did This Happen to Us? 193 JORDAN JR, VERNON E. From the White House to the Wardrobe Malfunction: Advice from an Unexpected We Are Imperfect, and We Make Imperfect Pragmatism and Compassion 10 Career Path 212 Decisions 316 JUNCKER, JEAN-CLAUDE MAY, THERESA FRANKEN, AL The Honor of Our European Sovereignty 297 Brexit: The Five Tests 134 That’s Why I’m a Democrat 37 K McCAIN, MEGHAN G KAUFMAN, HENRY He Was a Great Man 265 GONZALEZ, EMMA What Financial Change Has Wrought: the McCRARY JR., WILLIAM W. We Call BS 94 Last Half Century and Beyond 344 The U S Textile Industry Must Seize This Six Minutes and 20 Seconds 148 KAVANAUGH, BRETT Generational Opportunity 141 GORE, AL An Independent Judiciary Is the Crown Jewel McMASTER, H.R. of Our Constitutional Republic 243 We Could Lose These Conditions 256 On Russia, for Too Long Some Nations Have KENNEDY III, JOE Looked the Other Way 159 GOTTLIEB, SCOTT We Choose Both We Fight for Both 68 Our Biosimilars Action Plan 284 MORAN, JERRY KENT, MUHTAR Time to Inject More Certainty into Our Trade GREITENS, ERIC Policies 279 Lessons From My Coca-Cola Career and I Will Resign as Governor of Missouri 201 Hope for America’s Future 22 MORRISON, SCOTT GROSSMAN, DAVID L I Believe You We Believe You Your Country Believes You 359 Israel Is a Fortress, but Still Not a Home 172 LAGARDE, CHRISTINE N GUTMANN, AMY The Class of 2018: A New Odyssey 225 An Education in Values 108 NETANYAHU, BENJAMIN Think Uniquely, Stand United 223 LANDRIEU, MITCH Darkness Is Descending on Our Region 131 The Arc of the Moral Universe Doesn’t Iran Has a Secret Atomic Warehouse 306 H Bend on Its Own 216 NORTHAM, RALPH HALEY, NIKKI LEONARD, RICHARD We Are Bigger Than This 72 The United States Will Remember Donald Trump, You Shall Not Pass 250 This Day 50 O LI, KEQIANG HIGGINS, MICHAEL D. The International Landscape Continues to OBAMA, BARACK A Real Republic 358 Be Complicated 338 Given the Strange and Uncertain Times J M We’re In 234 We Never Doubted That We Were on the JEMISON, MAE MACRON, EMMANUEL Same Team 263 It Did Not Start with Donald Trump 309 Look Up 51 A New Breed of Multilateralism 154 VSOTD.COM JANUARY–DECEMBER 2018 VITAL SPEECHES OF THE DAY INDEX P T WARREN, BEVERLY J. Kent State Beyond the Shootings: Journey PENCE, MIKE TESORO, VICKI of the Wounded Healer 268 In the Story of the Jews, We’ve Always Seen A Tall Order, a Small Step 53 the Story of America 79 WARREN, ELIZABETH Vigilance and Resolve Will Be Our TILLERSON, REX W. Pocahontas’s Real Journey 96 Lodestar 109 The Most Precious Thing You Possess 147 A Crisis of Faith 274 A New Approach to China 333 TRUDEAU, JUSTIN WEN, WANG PERRY, RICK We Were Wrong We Are Sorry And We U S Society Is Mistaken in Making China The New Energy Realism 128 Will Never Let This Happen Again 12 the Scapegoat for Its Own Problems 189 POMPEO, MIKE TRUMP, DONALD WILLEM-ALEXANDER, KING What We Demand from Iran 184 Our Eyes Are Fixed to the North 2 How We Stand in Life Ourselves 55 We Are Not Going to Let the United States R Be Taken Advantage of Anymore 6 WILLIAMS, JOHN C. Four Vital National Interests 34 Expecting the Unexpected: Staying Calm ROLD, ANA When the Data Meet the Forecasts 98 Time to Officially Recognize Jerusalem as the Thoughts on Pie: Peace or Justice? 163 Capital of Israel 49 WINFREY, OPRAH We Are Building a Safe, Strong and Proud S America 62 Their Time Is Up 69 America First Does Not Mean America SCHEER, ANDREW Alone 77 WITTEN, JASON Canadians Occupy a Special Place in the Syrian Strikes: Why We Have Taken This The Secret Is in the Dirt 198 Fellowship of Free Nations 15 Action Now 162 The United States Will Withdraw from the Z SESSIONS, JEFF Nuclear Deal 182 Ending the Opioid Crisis: Our Mission Isn’t America Chooses Independence Over ZUCKERBERG, MARK Global Government 294 Hopeless 144 At Facebook, We Haven’t Done Enough 188 SHARPLESS, NORMAN E. TRUMP, IVANKA The Power and Promise of Cancer The Future We Can and Will Build Subjects Research 253 Together 17 A SMITH, LAMAR V A New Concept of National Power in Abortion, Ireland Outer Space 288 VARADKAR, LEO Abortion, Yes or No?, Abortion, Yes or No? 70, 116 Leo Varadkar 70, 116 STAVRIDIS, JAMES We Must Now Ensure That from Words The Educated Mind 101 Flow Actions 290 Adversity The Sea Is History 221 VEASEY, MARC The Class of 2018: A New Odyssey, Christine Lagarde 225 STEPHENS, BRET So What Unites Us? 46 Four Questions About American Affordable Housing Greatness 43 W In Public Housing, a New Era of Cooperation Free Speech and the Necessity of and Coordination, Discomfort 117 WAMBACH, ABBY Ben Carson 164 Give Me the Effing Ball 209 African American Entertainers Their Time Is Up, Oprah Winfrey 69 VSOTD.COM JANUARY–DECEMBER 2018 African American Women Astronauts Biosimilar Drugs Catholic Church Look Up, Our Biosimilars Action Plan, We Must Now Ensure That from Words Mae Jemison 51 Scott Gottlieb 284 Flow Actions, Leo Varadkar 290 African Americans, History Blasey Ford, Christine Censorship A Personal Connection, We Are Imperfect, and We Make Imperfect Betty Neal Crutcher 16 Decisions, An Issue Is That We Have Abandoned Truth, Jeff Flake 316 Betsy DeVos 320 Agriculture BP Center for Public Policy Priorities Agricultural Megatrends That Should Matter to Everybody, Negotiating the Future of Energy, Pragmatism and Compassion, James C Collins 280 Bob Dudley 169 Vernon E Jordan, Jr 10 We’re Characterized as Being at the Root Anti-Apartheid Activists of the Problem, Chemical Weapons, Syria Bob Dudley 350 Who My Mother Really Was, Syrian Strikes: Why We Have Taken This Zenani Mandela-Dlamini 174 Action Now, Branding (Marketing) Donald Trump 162 Apple Inc. Lessons From My Coca-Cola Career and Hope for America’s Future, Child Sexual Abuse Our Own Information Is Being Weaponized Muhtar Kent 22 Against Us, Remember What You Have Witnessed These Tim Cook 330 Past Seven Days, Brexit Rachael Denhollander 83 Astronauts Paradoxically, Brexit Has Also United Europe, Michel Barnier 27 Child Sexual Abuse, Australia Look Up, Mae Jemison 51 Brexit: The Great Liberal Project of Our Age, I Believe You We Believe You Your Country Boris Johnson 111 Believes You , Scott Morrison 359 Authoritarianism Brexit: The Five Tests, Theresa May 134 How Did This Happen to Us?, China, Foreign Relations Jeff Flake 193 The Vision of the Brexit That We Fought For, Boris Johnson 251 The International Landscape Continues to A Crisis of Faith, Be Complicated, Elizabeth Warren 274 Bush, Barbara Li Keqiang 338 B Our First and Most Important Teacher, China, Politics and Government Jeb Bush 176 Baltic States-United States Relations A New Approach to China, Business Ethics Mike Pence 333 On Russia, for Too Long Some Nations Have Looked the Other Way, Discovering the Better Angels of Our Nature, China-United States Relations H R McMaster 159 Ronald Berenbeim 348 U S Society Is Mistaken in Making China Banks and Banking Businesswomen the Scapegoat for Its Own Problems,