Institutions Are Imperfect. Governments Surely Are. People

I Think This Is The Biggest Lesson A President Or Any Of Us Who Has Responsibility To Govern Have To Learn: There Are Always Consequences To Actions That You Take. There Are Consequences To Inaction.

The Bush Administration Must Understand That Each American Has A Right To Question Our Policies In Iraq And Elsewhere, And Should Not Be Demonized Or Condemned For Disagreeing With Them. Suggesting That To Challenge And Criticize Policy Is Undermining And Hurting Our Troops Is Not Democratic, Nor What This Country Has Stood For Over 200 Years.

I'm Not Sure Leaders Listen Enough, Especially To Their People. And I've Always Thought In Everything I've Tried To Do In My Life, In The Jobs I've Had, Is That If We Can Turn Our Transmitters Off And Our Receivers On More Often, We're Better Leaders And We Know More Of What Is Going On And Therefore We Can Lead More Effectively.

Closing Guantanamo Bay Is Not A Military Solution. The Closing Of That Prison, Which I Support, I Supported It When I Was In The Senate, Requires More Than Just A Military Dimension.

We Live In A World Where There Are Dangerous People, There Are Bad People.