The really important victory of the civil rights movement was that it made racism unpopular, whereas a generation ago at the turn of the last century, you had to embrace racism to get elected to anything.
I'd come back after having served as ambassador to New Zealand and found that I had real concerns about the direction in which this country was headed.
Bush is giving the rich a tax cut instead of putting that cut in the pockets of working people.
And frankly, being a woman I think gives me a slightly different take on a lot of the issues and on a lot of the solutions to the problems we face.
I think if we are actually going to accept our generation's responsibility, that's going to mean that we give our children no less retirement security than we inherited from our parents.
We must invest in infrastructure development and rebuilding communities to create jobs.
