sometimes in this country and in our lives we see blocks of marble and some people can see what's inside and some people can't. it was a question profound. it was a profound question about how we recognize the potential within each of us and chisel away at what's keeping it locked inside. i'm absolutely confident that because of the work of colin and alma powell, because of the work that the grad nation and the alliance is going to be doing, because of the work we're doing across this nation to give our children the best education the world has to offer from cradle to classroom, from college through career, that we are chiseling away at the obstacles that lie in our path, that block our children's potential. we want to up lock that potential. carve it out. so that our economy succeeds. president obama talking this