Politics Is A Substitute For Violence.

When I'm President, We'll Have Executive Orders To Overcome Any Wrong Thing The Supreme Court Does Tomorrow Or Any Other Day

The Department Of Education Should Not Be Producing Paid Political Advertising For The President, It Should Be Helping Us To Produce Smarter Students.

Diplomacy Matters. Burden-sharing Matters. Follow-through Matters. And Yes, Sustaining The Peace Is Harder, More Complex And Often Costlier Than Winning The War Itself. No Matter The Surge Of Momentary Machismo -- As Gratifying As It May Be For Some -- It's Short-sighted And Wrong To Simply Go It Alone.

I Grew Up In The '50s And '60s When Jack Kennedy Was President. We Would Watch Him On Television. And Our Teachers Always Talked About The Good Things Public Servants Could Do. I Thought Maybe That's Something I Should Do. So When I Got Out Of Law School, My Wife, Jane, And I Became Precinct Captains.

In 1988, As An Unknown Candidate, Totally Unknown, I Won Iowa, Came In Second In New Hampshire, Won South Dakota. I Was Ahead In Every Super Tuesday State The Day After South Dakota. The Only Problem Was I Didn't Have Enough Money. I Had A Million Dollars Left, And Al Gore Had Three And Michael Dukakis Had Three And It Was Lights Out.