We Live In An Interdependent World. Every

Simply Put, No Society Can Truly Flourish If It Stifles The Dreams And Productivity Of Half Its Population. Happily, I See Evidence All Over The World That Women Are Gaining Social And Economic Power That They Never Had Before. This Is Good News.

Only The Police Should Have Handguns.

When I First Came To Washington In The 1960s, Even At The Height Of The Vietnam War, Until The End There In '68 There Was A Certain Climate Of Cooperation. And Then In The Late Sixties And In Through The Seventies, Politics Began Getting More Mean. And Then From The Eighties On It Seemed To Be Institutionalized, This Personal Attack Business. And I Just Hate It.

Thomas Jefferson Understood The Greater Purpose Of The Liberty That Our Founding Fathers Sought During The Creation Of Our Nation. Although It Was Against The British That The Colonists Fought For Political Rights, The True Source Of The Rights Of Man Was Clearly Stated In The Declaration Of Independence. Jefferson Wrote That All Humans Are Endowed By Their Creator With Certain Unalienable Rights . . . . It Was Self-evident To Him That Denying These Rights Was Wrong And That He And Others Must Struggle To Win What Was Theirs.

Putin Wants To Reestablish Russian Greatness, Not As The Cold War, But In 19th Century Empire Terms.