"Slowly, [General Colin] Powell is coming around to the view that government, too, must do more, not in–God forbid–running programs but in helping to fund the nonprofits we already know work. While avoiding the usual Washington scramble for money, he admits that the pending $200 billion plus transportation bill got him thinking. Youth development programs are 'as good a place to invest as highways in Kansas,' he says. So why not more public investment?"

Long After the Trumpets,
Newsweek Magazine,
May 11, 1998