This Is About Respect For Women, The

This Book [dreams From My Father] Was More Of A Reflection On My Public Life, Now As A U.s. Senator And Before That As A State Senator; How My Perspectives Around The Issues Of The Day Are Shaped By My Background.

Democracy Demands That The Religiously Motivated Translate Their Concerns In To Universal, Rather Than Religion-specific, Values... It Requires That Their Proposals Be Subject To Argument And Amenable To Reason. Now I May Be Opposed To Abortion For Religious Reasons, To Take One Example, But If I Seek To Pass A Law Banning The Practice, I Cannot Simply Point To The Teachings Of My Church Or Evoke God's Will. I Have To Explain Why Abortion Violates Some Principle That Is Accessible To People Of All Faiths, Including Those With No Faith At All.

You Didn't Elect Me To Tell You What You Wanted To Hear. You Elected Me To Tell You The Truth.

I Wish The Country Had Fewer Lawyers And More Engineers.

It Was As If He Had Come To Mistrust Words Somehow. Words, And The Sentiments Words Carried.