We do not wish to impoverish the environment any further, and yet we cannot for a moment forget the grim poverty of large numbers of people. Are not poverty and need the greatest polluters?

If al Qaeda or any other enemy of our country manages to create a situation or explode a bomb or murder or incapacitate large numbers of our people, we cannot wait for 7 weeks of a special election in order to deal with that.

Large-scale public projects require the agreement of large numbers of people.

When large numbers of men are unable to find work, unemployment results.

Large numbers of people are broken from the notion that the system is working for people, that the system is just or humane or peaceful.

We cannot wish for that we know not.