As some of you may know, started my career as a political media consultant mostly working in Latin America. I had the misfortune of working for democrats in the United States in the 1980s which was not the easiest time to work for democrats. I worked in campaigns for people like Kennedy and Mondale and John Glenn and Michael Dukakis. I could go on for Edgar’s grimacing, remembering those days. Finally, they said, "Leslie, why don't you just leave the United States and go somewhere else." So, I had to go down to poor Latin America where, of course, in the '80s, so many of those countries were going democratic for the first time. Mexico, of course, would not accept me because it was a little too close to home to have a gringo but I did manage to work with the radicals in Argentina and the No Campaign in Chile. The experience taught me two things that I wanted to just focus on for a moment that I think are embodied by what Endeavor is doing, and that are integral to flourishing freedom in the developing world. There are principles, by the way, that I think the current administration in Washington could take heed. The first is that freedom and prosperity and the institutions that are necessary to both of them can neither be proclaimed from above nor imposed from abroad. They have to be cultivated and grown as an indigenous crop. The worst mistake that we can make is assuming that we in America have all the answers that we can just harvest a handful of political or economic crops grown here and plant them in foreign soil somehow and expect them to flourish. Endeavor is genius, I found, was that it taps into and invests in local genius. The second principle is that flourishing entrepreneurial society is absolutely vital, I think, and I learned this to free political society. So while Endeavor's work begins with prosperity as Jim Wolfensohn points out, its ultimate promise really is freedom and further in civil society. Those are more than just ...