[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 86 (Thursday, June 19, 1997)]
[Senate]
[Page S5959]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                LEADERSHIP TRAINING INSTITUTE FOR YOUTH

  Mr. ASHCROFT. Mr. President, I would like to point out a remarkable 
program that exists in America today--a program that infuses our young 
people with a sense of purpose, values, principles, and the capacity to 
get things done.
  This program, called the Leadership Training Institute for Youth, is 
doing its good work at Southwest Baptist University in Bolivar, MO, 
this week.
  Mr. President, I rise today to pay tribute to this organization and 
its dedicated staffers and participants. It is Missouri's distinct 
honor to host such an excellent opportunity for our young people.
  The Leadership Training Institute for Youth is a model initiative 
that, with the help of Scripture and sound guidance, teaches young 
people the tenets of good leadership and good citizenship.
  Of course, the core training for tomorrow's leaders begins at home, 
and this organization and its committed staffers build on the lessons 
that parents teach.
  The Leadership Training Institute for Youth provides young people 
across the country with opportunity, inspiration, and advantage in our 
culture. It calls future leaders to their highest and best in the name 
of a higher power. It offers direction in what is too often a 
rudderless world.
  The institute demonstrates through lessons and example the value of 
priorities such as love for God, family, and country. It motivates 
youth to esteem virtues of honor, morality, compassion, faithfulness, 
integrity, discipline, and respect for the sanctity of life.
  Therefore, I rise today to express my sincere appreciation to the 
Leadership Training Institute for Youth. Without such entities, our 
children might be left to the mercies of today's malls, movies, and 
televisions.
  Our national heritage and our country's future are too important to 
be left to today's suspect environments that typically attract our 
young people.
  The Leadership Training Institute for Youth is a commitment to our 
young people--a commitment to the future leaders of this great Nation. 
We need more programs like it.

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