I Can't Stand The Kind Of Paralysis

Throughout The 1980s, We Did Hear Too Much About Individual Gain And The Ethos Of Selfishness And Greed. We Did Not Hear Enough About How To Be A Good Member Of A Community, To Define The Common Good And To Repair The Social Contract. And We Also Found That While Prosperity Does Not Trickle Down From The Most Powerful To The Rest Of Us, All Too Often Indifference And Even Intolerance Do.

Unfortunately, Race Still Determines Too Much, Often Determines Where People Live, Determines What Kind Of Education In Their Public Schools They Can Get, And, Yes, It Determines How They're Treated In The Criminal Justice System.

If Companies Try To Leave Our Country To Avoid Paying Their Fair Share, If They Try To Outsource Jobs, They're Going To Have To Give Back Every Tax Break They Ever Received In Our Country.

I Support The Second Amendment. I Lived In Arkansas For 18 Wonderful Years. I Represented Upstate New York. I Understand And Respect The Tradition Of Gun Ownership. It Goes Back To The Founding Of Our Country.

I Think Our Great Task Is To Make Certain That Our Young Men And Women In The Military Do Not Get Sucked Into Never- Ending, Perpetual Warfare Within The Quagmire Of Syria And Iraq. And I Will Do My Very Best To Make Sure That That Doesn't Happen.