To me, that means getting back to the point where our Constitution means that you don't tap people's phones and poke into their e-mail and you don't arrest people and keep them hidden for a year and a half without charging them.
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.