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A Desire To Succeed In Politics Is Propelled By These Two Seemingly Contradictory Forces, Which Frequently Change Places And Sometimes Coexist: To Save Others And To Save Oneself.

Our Right To Disagree Is Precious But Fragile. The Best Way To Protect And Preserve It Is To Let The Other Side Speak Without Demonizing Them Or Destroying Their Right To Be Heard. Such Civil Exchanges Are The Heart Beat Of Democracy - Essential To Keeping It Alive.

There Are Not Many Female Role Models To Guide Voters, And The Tradition That A Southern Woman's Place Is In The Home Still Lingers In Some Quarters.

The United States Is No Longer First In The World In Upward Mobility. We Can Reverse That Trend By Giving Our Young Children An Equal Start In Life As They Begin Their Journey To Fulfill The American Dream.

Are There Really Good Wars And Bad Wars? We Thought So During World War Ii, And In Retrospect, We Were Right. But In Vietnam, And Iraq We Were Wrong.